Question

Francesca, a PhD candidate, conducts extensive research on aluminum corrosion. When finished, she will submit her research data and conclusions in a report to a scientific journal for peer review. What are three benefits of peer review? A. Peer review guarantees that the results of the research or experimentation are accurate and relevant. B. Peer review allows other scientists the chance to try to replicate the experimental results. C. Peer review can lead to new ideas and further study. D. Peer review helps check for mistakes, bias, or fraud in a set of experimental work.

Answer 1

Peer review can be defined as the review of the research done by the researchers. This review is done by the scientists, who work in the same field.  

The advantages of the peer reviews are:

1. It allows a diversity of opinions, which removes the biases and the pre set ideas.  

2. It allows checking if the idea is plagiarized and check if the results obtained are accurate.

3. As the peer review allows the review of the paper by expertise, and then the journal has special reputation and trust, which can help in further researches.

4. The peer review scientist can perform the same experiment and may try to replicate the result, to check whether the experiments are correct or not.  

Hence, the benefits of the peer review are:

A. Peer review guarantees that the results of the research or experimentation are accurate and relevant.  

B. Peer review allows other scientists the chance to try to replicate the experimental results.  

D. Peer review helps check for mistakes, bias, or fraud in a set of experimental work.

The peer review can lead to further innovations, but, this is not a benefit of peer review for the student. Also, it is not necessary, that peer review lead to further researches. Hence, it is not a benefit of peer review.