The focus of the 2017 Peer Review Congress finally shifted on Day 3 to innovations and new trends in peer review. Compared to days 1 and 2 that focused on clinical trials, day 3 was packed with discussions about other Read More
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2014 and has been refreshed for Peer Review Week 2017. A previous article discussed how recurring incidents of peer review rigging in the recent years are posing a Read More
In line with the theme of innovations in peer review, the session on post-publication issues on day three included interesting presentations that went beyond the journal and looked at commenting platforms and indexing databases. One Read More
This article was originally published on Wiley Exchanges and has been republished here with permission. Scientific research is flourishing – there is an increase in the volume of publications, the number of discoveries, and the number Read More
Day 2 of the Peer Review Congress: Often when we talk about peer review, we focus on the various forms of journal submissions that undergo close scrutiny. The second day of the International Congress on Peer Read More
After some interesting sessions on the quality of reporting, it was time to discuss the quality of scientific literature. The session started off with an excellent presentation from Dr. Harold Sox from the Patient Centred Read More
Case: An author’s manuscript was rejected after peer review. The author was surprised when he received the peer reviewer comments: while the first two of the three reviewers had given quite positive reviews along Read More
The first day of the Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication was eventful. In the studies presented by various groups during the first half, biases associated with conflicts of interest, peer review, Read More
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2014 and has been refreshed for Peer Review Week 2017. In the previous part of this series, I gave a broad overview of the Associate Editor’s (AE’Read More
After the keynote address by David Moher from Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Day 2 of the Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publishing changed gears with sessions on the quality of reporting. Robert Frank Read More