As a peer one should also know their roles and responsibilities. The peers should know that the manuscripts they are reviewing are confidential documents which contain unpublished data and ideas; therefore they must be kept confidential.

At this stage of handling the unpublished data the peer should not share the paper or its contents even with your colleagues.

Once manuscripts are received they should be kept in a proper place, at there they are not readily accessible to the curious or unscrupulous people.

While reviewing a manuscript always remember that as a peer you cannot use the information that is in your own publication.

While reviewing always remember that the journal needs your scientific expertise, not your editorial assistance.

Look into the quality, importance, and novelty of the science presented in the manuscript.

Reviewers who focus on minor editorial problems (typographical errors, misspellings) and not comment on the scientific content of the paper are useless reviewers.

While reviewing focus on the science, the appropriateness of the techniques, the strengths and weakness of the patterns of experiments, the quality of analyses, and the appropriateness and impact of the conclusions drawn by the authors.

The comments made in the review should present the importance of the science and the effectiveness and capability of its acts of presenting in the manuscript of the peer reviewer.

The peer should also look for any evidence if much or all of the paper has been published previously by the same authors or the text or ideas have been copied without permission or appropriate attribution to the workers or there are related about the wholeness of the data, analyses, and conclusions or the data looks fabricated or falsified or the data appears manipulated or analyzed inappropriately causing the conclusions to be deliberately misleading.

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