Peer Reviewing Scientific Research and Publishing
In July this year, 2025, I graduated from the Institute of Physics (Publishing branch) Peer Review Excellence programme. Rigour and integrity is their motto. They aim for the very highest scholarly standard of communication across books, journals, science news and media, conference proceedings. The programme is aimed at young early career physical science researchers (Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Earth Sciences) with PhDs in the sciences, trying to hone their skills to a high standard in peer reviewing. It gives you reviewer competency, and a standardized quality of peer reviewing in order to become a trusted, ethical & confident reviewer. The programme also gives you valuable experience points. Here's the beautiful certificate and badge they gave me after I passed all their assessment tests with flying colours. The tests were taken from heavy going Physics research and real examples of scientific errors which you had to spot, analyse and evaluate. Not everyone ...
