Peer review as a key ‘transferable skill’ for researchers, or: Why is it so hard for publishers to find effective peer reviewers?

What’s currently being missed from the training available to researchers?

Everyone knows that peer review is the cornerstone of academic publishing. We all rely on other experts, our peers, to ‘police’ and ‘quality control’ submitted research, to suggest improvements and changes, all before articles are finally - hopefully - published in journals. The higher-profile the journal the better from a researcher’s perspective, whic…