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Authors’ And Editors’ Perspectives On Peer Review Quality In Three Scholarly Nursing Journals, Mona Shattell, Peggy Chinn, Sandra Thomas, W. Richard Cowling

Mona Shattell

Purpose: This study examined the quality of peer review in three scholarly nursing journals from the perspectives of authors and editors. Specifically, the study examined the extent to which manuscript reviews provided constructive guidance for authors to further develop their work for publication, and for editors to make informed and sound decisions on the disposition of manuscripts.

Methods: Corresponding authors who had submitted manuscripts to the study journals in 2005-2007 were invited via email to complete an online survey about the quality of the peer review process; 320 authors responded. In addition, one-third of the reviews of manuscripts submitted in …

Visual Tracking Strategies To Move Scholarship Forward, T. Robin Bartlett, Mona Shattell, Eileen Rossen

Mona Shattell

Moving from the doctoral student role to the faculty member role is a challenging transition. Strategies that motivate and help to keep scholarship moving forward can be invaluable in helping to make the transition successful. The authors discuss 2 visual tracking strategies to promote the forward movement of scholarship. A white (dry erase) board and a publication trajectory table to track manuscript and research ideas through grant proposal and manuscript submission to publication are described.

The Scholarship Of Engagement In Nursing, Mona Shattell, Joseph Burrage, Barbara Haberman

Mona Shattell

We propose the time is right for the Scholarship of Engagement to serve as a model of scholarship in schools of nursing given the shift towards community based research and the emphasis of communitybased research in the recently published National Institutes of Health (NIH) roadmap initiative. Thus, this article addresses the need of nursing academe to embrace a broader paradigm of scholarship, the Scholarship of Engagement, in order to expand knowledge development via implementation of the NIH roadmap. The need for implementation of a broader paradigm of nursing science within the context of nursing academics’ roles is discussed.