Editorial

Fifth international congress on peer review and biomedical publication

BMJ 2003; 326 doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7389.563 (Published 15 March 2003)
Cite this as: BMJ 2003;326:563

Access to the full text of this article requires a subscription or payment. Please log in or subscribe below.

Call for research

  1. Drummond Rennie, deputy editor JAMA,
  2. Annette Flanagin, managing senior editor JAMA,
  3. Richard Smith, editor,
  4. Jane Smith, deputy editor
  1. 515 N State St, Chicago IL 60610, USA
  2. BMJ
  3. BMJ, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR

    We have now held four peer review congresses at four year intervals, and their success is shown by the stimulus they have given to an evolving science—investigation of the process whereby scientific work is selected and published.1–4 Since the announcement of the first peer review congress in 1986, the numbers of abstracts submitted to successive congresses have increased from 50 to 110, 160, and 180, respectively. We have noted similar increases in the number of Medline citations on peer review, which since 2000 have averaged 170-200 per year.5

    We now …

    Access to the full text of this article requires a subscription or payment

    Subscribe

    Article access

    Article access for 1 day

    Purchase this article for £20 $30 €32*

    The PDF version can be downloaded as your personal record

    * Prices do not include VAT

    Rapid responses

    THIS WEEK'S POLL

    BMJ most popular