Why Should I Participate in Peer Review?

There are several good reasons to serve as a reviewer.

• Reviewing is an important professional service that results in an improvement in the quality of published articles and thus advances both scholarship and professional practice.
• Peer review is a highly valued and prestigious activity, uniformly recognized as an important contribution by other scholars, promotion and tenure committees, grant review committees, and accrediting bodies concerned with quality assurance.
• Reviewing can serve to improve your own work by helping you to become a more precise writer, to improve the design of your own studies, to develop new ideas, and to expand your current working knowledge of the literature.