Peer Review Process in Scientific Journals

• Published in: Revista Psicologia Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. I - III
• Main Authors: Roberto Moraes Cruz, Jairo Eduardo Borges-Andrade, Alexsandro Luiz De Andrade, Daniela Campos Bahia Moscon, João Viseu, Marcos Ricardo Datti Micheletto, María Elisa Ansoleaga Moreno, Mª Inmaculada López Núñez, Mussa Abacar, Nádia Kienen, Sabrina Cavalcanti Barros, Janete Knapik, Simone Cassiano, Daiane Rose Cunha Bentivi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Organizacional e do Trabalho 01-04-2022
• ISSN: 1984-6657
• DOI: 10.5935/rpot/2022.2.editorial

he debate on the quality and integrity of scientific production, which has been accentuated in recent years, has been associated with studies on the quality and relevance of scientific publications. That is, the ability of scientific journals to self-regulate themselves, especially in the conduct of an editorial process that promotes the evaluation of merit, originality, reliability of sources, data, analysis and results, theoretical foundation, and quality of scientific writing of manuscripts submitted to the appreciation of their editorial board and ad hoc reviewers (Cruz et al., 2021). The increase in the number of theoretical and empirical articles, with emphasis on the scientific, technical, and ethical challenges of scientific communications, has highlighted the role of the peer review process or referee system. Although there are other qualitative and quantitative aspects of scientific publications, this system is considered essential in maintaining the integrity of the editorial process (Horbach & Halffman, 2018). Scientific journals that adopt peer evaluation become the preferred source for reading, citation, publication, and dissemination of knowledge, as well as serving as a reference for the determination of qualifiers of scientific publications, including the Impact Factor (Nassi-Calò, 2015). In journal search portals, the choice of the pre-select criterion is often the selection of only articles that adopt this evaluation is the result of a decision to prioritize what is most likely to represent an article that deserves to be identified, read, and perhaps cited. This can therefore affect the impact of what is published.