Erschienen in:
01.12.2013 | Editorial
Peer Review: The Year in Review
verfasst von:
Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil, Richard L. Kravitz, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 12/2013
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Excerpt
As another year at JGIM draws to a close, we want to thank and acknowledge the many talented people who have served as peer reviewers for JGIM over the past 12 months. Peer review remains an imperfect process, just okay at detecting error and abysmal at detecting fraud. Nevertheless, traditional peer review seems here to stay: few leading journals or editors are currently pushing for its demise. So while the idea of open source review appeals to our sense of transparency and fairness, for now we will continue to rely on our large panel of expert volunteer peer reviewers (and outstanding Deputy Editors) to help ensure the quality and fidelity of what we publish. …