BMJ 1994;309:143-144 (16 July)

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Promoting research into peer review

One of the jobs of the editor of the BMJ is to sit on the editorial boards of the 18 special journals owned by the BMJ Publishing Group. At the meetings of these boards many questions are asked about the peer review process. What can be done to raise the standard of reviewing? How many reviewers should be used? How should they be selected? Should reviewers be blinded to the names of the authors? Or, in contrast, should the traditional anonymity of reviewers be abolished? Why are reviewers anonymous anyway? Should authors be encouraged to suggest reviewers for their own papers? Will this corrupt the peer review process? Should statistical reviewers be used? Should they be used for all papers, and should they be used before or after clinical reviewers? The same questions arise at most meetings, and no doubt they arise at the editorial boards of all the many . . . [Full text of this article]


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Promoting research into peer review No quick fixes
S A T Redfh, D N Poller, and P Furness
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