The membership of the University IRB is sufficiently diverse to allow compliant review of the types of research in which University/Affiliate investigators commonly engage including social behavioral, ...

Peer review is often the key hurdle between obtaining some data and getting it published in the scientific literature. As such, it’s often essential to keeping questionable results out of the ...

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As part of its overall strategy to strengthen audit quality, in 2014 the AICPA issued the discussion paper Enhancing Audit Quality: Plans and Perspectives for the U.S. CPA Profession, which provides a ...

S ay your department gets a green light to bring in an outside expert — typically, an academic in the discipline — to do a comprehensive evaluation of your program. How does the department decide who ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Is your area up for outside evaluation? In higher education, we typically know these as external ...

made a significant and positive contribution to the peer review process, regardless of whether the paper was eventually accepted by the journal; taken both a broad and detailed view of the paper; ...

“Greetings! You’ve been added to our journal’s editorial system because we believe you would serve as an excellent reviewer of [Unexciting Title] manuscript …” You probably get these, too. It feels ...

How do editors select reviewers? A number of factors determine our choice of reviewers. Of primary importance is the reviewer’s expertise, as it is essential that we receive expert feedback on all ...