This book has established itself as the authoritative text on health sciences peer review. Contributions from the world's leading figures discuss the state of peer review, question its role in the currently changing world of electronic journal publishing, and debate where it should go from here. The second edition has been thoroughly revised and new chapters added on qualitative peer review, training, consumers and innovation.
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'Marks a historical change in attitude by both the producers and the gatekeepers of biomedical knowledge.' -- Journal of the Royal European Medical Writers Association
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Comprehensive coverage of editorial and grant application peer review
New chapters added on qualitative peer review, training, consumers and innovation
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Kronick, in his essay on peer review in eighteenth-century scientific journalism, pointed out that "peer review can be said to have existed ever since people began to identify and communicate what they thought was new knowledge ... because peer review (whether it occurs before or after publication) is an essential and integral part of consensus building and is inherent and necessary to the growth of scientific knowledge". Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
qualitative manuscripts, consumer peer review, biomedical peer review, good publication practice, masking author identity, editorial peer review, fictitious manuscript, biomedical publication, blinded reviewers, peer review practices, blinding reviewers, economic submissions, redundant publication, statistical reviewers, grant peer review, open peer review, medical journal editors, research misconduct, journal peer review, manuscript quality, standard tier, reviewer bias, peer review system, open reviewing, peer reviewers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fourth International Congress, United States, The International Congress, United Kingdom, Cochrane Collaboration, New York, Medical Research Council, Ann Intern Med, National Institutes of Health, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, Publishing Group, Annals of Internal Medicine, Behav Brain Sci, Council of Biology Editors, New England Journal of Medicine, Australian Research Council, National Cancer Institute, World Association of Medical Editors, Council of Science Editors, Medical Journal of Australia, Nederlands Tijdschrift, Publication Ethics, Sci Eng Ethics, Update Software, Wellcome Trust New!
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Kronick, in his essay on peer review in eighteenth-century scientific journalism, pointed out that "peer review can be said to have existed ever since people began to identify and communicate what they thought was new knowledge ... because peer review (whether it occurs before or after publication) is an essential and integral part of consensus building and is inherent and necessary to the growth of scientific knowledge". Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
qualitative manuscripts, consumer peer review, biomedical peer review, good publication practice, masking author identity, editorial peer review, fictitious manuscript, biomedical publication, blinded reviewers, peer review practices, blinding reviewers, economic submissions, redundant publication, statistical reviewers, grant peer review, open peer review, medical journal editors, research misconduct, journal peer review, manuscript quality, standard tier, reviewer bias, peer review system, open reviewing, peer reviewers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fourth International Congress, United States, The International Congress, United Kingdom, Cochrane Collaboration, New York, Medical Research Council, Ann Intern Med, National Institutes of Health, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, Publishing Group, Annals of Internal Medicine, Behav Brain Sci, Council of Biology Editors, New England Journal of Medicine, Australian Research Council, National Cancer Institute, World Association of Medical Editors, Council of Science Editors, Medical Journal of Australia, Nederlands Tijdschrift, Publication Ethics, Sci Eng Ethics, Update Software, Wellcome Trust New!
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