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More attention to training and ethical treatment for early career researchers in peer review is long overdue, as highlighted by James L. Sherley ("Opinion: Exorcising Ghostwriting from Peer Review") in response to our recent eLife paper documenting trainees’ contributions to journal article peer review, a practice we call co-review. His piece also raises an important issue about when, and how, an academic can be “trusted” to review a scientific manuscript that has been submitted for publication.
Sherley argues that the place for peer review training is in classes and journal clubs and not through the actual review of articles. We agree that a fundamental outcome of graduate training should be the ability to competently review another academic’s work, and that, as we argue in our eLife paper and a recently posted MetaArXiv preprint, all graduate training should include Peer Review 101. Sherley is also correct ...
