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Peer review seems to have had its origins in 18th century England to combat plagiarism. But today, the objectives of peer review are to provide evaluations of the quality of scientific or editorial material submitted. Peer review provides a check on the validity of manuscripts and sets standards for scientific merit.
Robert P. Ferguson, Stephanie M. Griffin
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Quality indicators for acute cardiovascular diseases: a scoping review
Background Although many quality indicator (QI) sets have been developed for acute cardiovascular diseases, a comprehensive summary is lacking. In this scoping review we aimed to summarize the available evidence on the QI sets for acute cardiovascular ...
Koshiro Kanaoka +6 more
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Chinese Medicine in the Management of New and Emerging Infectious Diseases
: Emerging infectious diseases are an important problem in medicine, and many continue to pose a global threat. However, the management of new and emerging infections is usually difficult due to a lack of knowledge and tools to address the problem.
Viroj Wiwanitkit
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Peer review: Peerless review [PDF]
Peer review is indeed ‘... a flawed process, full of easily identified defects with little evidence that it works’, as Richard Smith concludes in his thoughtful article (April 2006 JRSM1)—but even flawed refereeing is better than not being peer reviewed at all.
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A guide to performing a peer review of randomised controlled trials [PDF]
Peer review of journal articles is an important step in the research process. Editors rely on the expertise of peer reviewers to properly assess submissions.
Del Mar, Chris, Hoffmann, Tammy C.
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Peer review for publication is fundamental to science-based fields, and nursing is no exception. Peer review provides benefits to the reviewer and the author(s) of the reviewed work. The purpose of this article is to provide readers with an explanation of how the peer review process works, what the responsibilities of a peer reviewer are, how to get ...
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: Stroke is the leading cause of human disability with limited effective drugs availability. The disruption of multiple signaling pathways in stroke makes developing new drugs be difficult.
Jian-Gang SHEN
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We describe three creative collaborations between the California Sea Grant Extension Program (SGEP), the California Department of Fish and Game, the fishing industry and university researchers to improve marine fisheries management in ...
Christopher Dewees +2 more
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Background There is a power imbalance between authors and reviewers in single-blind peer review. We explored how switching from single-blind to double-blind peer review affected 1) the willingness of experts to review, 2) their publication ...
Piitu Parmanne +5 more
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The frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the honeycomb lattice: $J_{1}$--$J_{2}$ model [PDF]
We study the ground-state (gs) phase diagram of the frustrated spin-1/2 $J_{1}$--$J_{2}$ antiferromagnet with $J_{2}=\kappa J_1>0$ ($J_{1}>0$) on the honeycomb lattice, using the coupled-cluster method.
Bishop, R. F. +3 more
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