Peer review: a flawed but essential process
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Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals.
Peer review is at the heart of the processes of not just medical journals but of all of science. It is the method by which grants are allocated, papers published, academics promoted, and Nobel prizes won. Yet it is hard to define. It has until recently been unstudied. And its defects are easier to identify than its attributes. Yet it shows no sign of going away. Famously, it is compared with de...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1478-2715,2042-8189
DOI: 10.4997/jrcpe.2012.401