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(5/5) Finally, you can watch Natalie speak on "Demystifying Peer Review" for a panel organized by the Ancient Judaism Regional Seminar in 2021. (It's free!)

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Demystifying Peer Review
JQR editor Natalie Dohrmann walks you through the peer evaluation process in a video from AJRS.
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(4/5) You’ve submitted an article, and now the editors have returned with a decision and peer evaluations. How do you incorporate the reviews productively? How do you handle criticism or contradictory feedback?

Advice for authors in another JQR blog post:
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The Peaks, Valleys, Perils, and Rewards of Peer Review: Part II. How to Read Peer Evaluations
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(3/5) Wondering what JQR looks for in a quality peer review? Check out our 2019 blog post on best practices for reviewers.

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The Peaks, Valleys, Perils, and Rewards of Peer Review: Part I. How to Write Peer Evaluations
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(2/5) First up: in an interview for Peer Review Week 2023, JQR editor Natalie Dohrmann touched on the challenges of peer review, including gender equity and overtaxed readers.

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Peer Review Week: Interview with Jewish Quarterly Review editor Natalie B. Dohrmann - University of Pennsylvania Press
It’s Peer Review Week! This annual week-long event aims to celebrate the value of peer review among academic publishers, associations, institutions,
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