Editorial peer reviewers' recommendations at a general medical journal: are they reliable and do editors care?

BACKGROUND: Editorial peer review is universally used but little studied. We examined the relationship between external reviewers' recommendations and the editorial outcome of manuscripts undergoing external peer-review at the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM). METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL F...

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Main Authors: Richard L Kravitz, Peter Franks, Mitchell D Feldman, Martha Gerrity, Cindy Byrne, William M Tierney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2851650?pdf=render