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01.01.2014 | 2013 SSAT Presidential Address
2013 SSAT Presidential Address: Peer Review
verfasst von:
Jeffrey B. Matthews
Erschienen in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
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Ausgabe 1/2014
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Excerpt
It has been my privilege this year to serve as president of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT). I serve a second role in our society (together with Dr. Charles J. Yeo of Jefferson Medical College) as coeditor of our official journal, The Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (JoGS). Because the core function of a journal editor is the orchestration of peer review, I chose “peer review” as the topic of today’s address. I will provide some historical context for the relationship of editorial peer review to academic societies such as ours, uncover some of its warts, discuss how peer review might be improved, and how it may evolve in the rapidly changing world of digital information flow. …