Abstract

Aim: To examine the demographic characteristics of reviewers and peer review duration of the articles taken into consideration in the Journal of İzmir Tepecik Teaching Hospital, last year. Material and Method: The reviewer reports of the 42 articles referred to The Journal of İzmir Tepecik Teaching Hospital between 12.01.2011 and 12.01.2012 were evaluated retrospectively. Findings: The mean evaluation period of the reviewers’ were 15, 74 ± 15.011 (1-94) days. Thirteen (14.9 percent)of the reviewer reports were received in the first 3 days,32( 36.7 percent) in a week,57( 65.5percent) in fifteen days; 73(83.9percent) in a month. The evaluation reports revealed that 72( 82.2percent) of the articles were eligible for publication in current form or with some corrections. Significant relationship was found between the institution of the reviewers and the evaluation periods (p = 0.035). There was no significant relationship between age or gender of the reviewers and the evaluation period (p = 0.14, p = 0.78). Working at the same branch with the author or academic titles of the reviewers showed no statistical association about the review duration (p = 0.40, p = 0.28). There was not any significant relation between the demographic characteristics of reviewers and the acceptance of the research for publication. Conclusion: The reviewer durations of the journal is at the acceptable level. There was no significant relation between the reviewer process or result of the journal and the reviewers demografic data; except the reviewer’s institutions.