Peer Review Process

Athanasia BenekouMedical Writer

Biomedical journals in Greece

34th Annual Hellenic Medical Congress

May, 20-24 2008

Do we like Peer Review?

Overall satisfaction

Examples

Method Journal

External review American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

BioMed Central Journals

Editorial board Circulation

In-house +/- external review Natrure, Lancet

JAMA

In-house +/- external review +expert committee

BMJ

Source: Wager E, Godlee F, Jefferson T. How to Survive Peer Review, BMJ 2003

Peer review type Author(%)

Editor(%)

Single-blind 25 72

Double-blind 56 22

Open 13 3

Post-publication 5 1

Πηγή: Peer review in scholarly journals: Perspective of the scholarly community – an international study. PRC, Mark Ware Consulting , 2008

Authors seems to prefer double-blind review ...but not the editors

Πηγή: Peer review in scholarly journals: Perspective of the scholarly community – an international study. PRC, Mark Ware Consulting , 2008

The critique

http://blogs.nature.com/peer-to-peer/categories/peer_review_debate/

http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/guidelines

The aid

http://www.wame.org/

Reviewers

How many?Who?

Timelines?Reward?

Πηγή: Peer review in scholarly journals: Perspective of the scholarly community – an international study. PRC, Mark Ware Consulting , 2008

Time distibution

Some intresting cases

PLoS ONE, www.plosone.org

Nature oper-peer-review trial

BiomedCentral, www.biomedcentral.com

«Finally, scientific papers were often anonymous 200 years ago. It was dropped as a system because readers liked authors to be accountable. We should do the right thing and get our reviewers to sign, and the experience of journals that are open tells us that the sky will not collapse on us if all journals were to become open.»

Peer Review Process

Athanasia BenekouMedical Writer

Biomedical journals in Greece

34th Annual Hellenic Medical Congress

May, 20-24 2008