The amount of time spent on creating each draft and reviewing will depend on the participant. In the first round, participants review two other drafts. In the second round, a faculty member reviews one draft, and a participant reviews one draft. In the third round, an undergraduate reviews one draft, and a participant reviews one draft. At this stage, the authors make a final revision and submit their draft to be published on the website.
All reviews are by persons outside of the author s field, and are anonymous.
We ll let you know about the process once we get started. Currently, we have no formal procedure for determining the validity of a statement as one might expect in say, a professionally peer-reviewed article. I-RITE reviewers, by design, are not in the author's specialty. We rely on the fact that all statement authors are Ph.D. students or postdocs doing research under the direction of one or more university faculty members. We believe that this provides at least an indirect check on the correctness of the content in the statements.