Peer Review as Part of Quality Control and Risk

Management

ByJacqueline C. Eldridge

Tetra Tech, Inc., Santa Barbara, California

Peer Review as Part of Quality Control and Risk Management

Concepts Applications Process Benefits vs. Risks

Concepts

What is peer review?• Definition• Example

Concepts

What is the purpose of peer review?

Applications

Who uses peer review?

Applications

What are a peer reviewer’s qualifications?

Process

How is a peer reviewer selected?

Process

What does a peer reviewer do?

Process

Who peer reviews the peer reviewer?

Benefits vs Risks

Value Added Liability

Benefits

What does the peer review process add to a document?

Benefits

What does the customer/client gain from peer review?

Benefits

What does the company (i.e., publisher) gain?

Benefits

What do the author and peer reviewer gain?

Risks

What are the risks of omitting the peer review process?

Risks

What are the risks of adding the peer review process?• Process risks• Reviewer risks

Risks

Process risks

Risks

Reviewer risks