Peer Reviewers’ Comments on Research Articles Submitted by Iranian Researchers

submissions to international English-medium journals. In this study, a corpus of reviewers’ reports on 32 manuscripts in 3 different fields was solicited from a number of Iranian graduate students and a content analysis was performed to find the common organizational patterns and also the most frequent types of problems noted by the reviewers. The results revealed that review reports followed a certain format in terms of structural organization and negative/positive balance of the comments. Also, the results demonstrated that the most frequent type of problems noted by reviewers were contentrelated defects. However, because scientific information is conveyed through the language and content failure often overlaps language issues, language-use comments should be considered as important.