Cited from other websites. For personal use.
- Contact the Journal Editor or Associate Editors with a request
to be considered. Include your CV so they can see the type of articles
you've written and the journals in which you've published.
- Talk with former advisors and current or former mentors about
recommending papers to you for review. They may be willing to suggest
you as a possible reviewer on papers they've been requested to review,
or may know journal editors or associate editors personally and be
willing to suggest you for future reviews.
- Network with these people when you see them at meetings. Be sure
to introduce yourself, talk about your research and how it fits with
their journal, and volunteer your willingness to review for them.
- Continue to publish good work in the best journals. It will
bring you to the attention of the editors and associate editors so that
they will think of you as a potential reviewer.
Before you know it, you will be on the list of reviewers for one or
more journals. However, be sure to be prompt and thoughtful in your
reviews, or you will find yourself off the list in a hurry.
See below for resources on being a journal reviewers (APS does not
endorse or assume responsibility for the information posted on these web
sites).
http://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_you_become_a_reviewer_of_journals
1. Publish your research constantly in your field so that you become well known in your area as an expert.
2. Make good network with people working not only in your area but also
in some allied fields and let them know that you are willing to serve as
a volunteer reviewer for some journals in your field. Getting reviewers
is a painstaking job for the editors due to busy and unavailable expert
reviewers and since most of the time the nature of the job is to
volunteer it becomes less priority.
3. Approach directly to the Editor-in-Chief, Section Editors, Associate
Editors of your target journal with a very organized CV, detailed
research interest, specific areas you want to review articles for, with
the detailed info of the reviewer activity you already performed for any
other journal(s). Though many high impact journals do not encourage
this unsolicited approach and they only rely on selecting well known and
established researchers in the area.
4. Try online registration for different journal (eg. Manuscript
Central-Scholar one...) as reviewer and provide detailed info including
your specific area of expertise.
5. Do your job seriously and be on time and come up with a good
constructive criticism once you agree to review any article. If you have
any conflict of interest be honest and disclose any related issue to
the editor.
6. Once the stone starts rolling you will be over whelmed with the number of articles you receive in a regular basis.
