This was apparent regardless of setting or assigned reviewer type.
This was true regardless of setting or assigned reviewer type (primary or secondary reviewer).
Sample mapping areas include: Author (eg, Information Specialist, Reviewer) Type of evidence (eg, editorial, conference publication) Target audience (eg, information specialists, clinicians) discipline.
To test whether author-suggested reviewers were more positive than other reviewers, we coded reviewer recommendations as reject=0, revise=1, or accept=2, and treated this value as the response in linear regression with reviewer type (author suggested or other) as the predictor.
I realize I am not the average restaurant-reviewer type -- in fact, I was immediately put at ease by all the loud noise, since I didn't have to worry about shouting at my three-year-old to "Stop licking the table and do not rub your food on the wall and then put it in your mouth, for Lord's sake!" And also, "Do not put your feet on the table and punch your sister".
Information was extracted by one reviewer (JC) on: type of study, year of data collection, specimen type, diagnostic test, age group and gender of participants, response rate, number of individuals tested, and results.
Main outcome measures Changes to the reporting of methodological aspects of randomised trials in manuscripts after peer review, based on the CONSORT checklist, corresponding peer reviewer reports, the type of changes requested, and the extent to which authors adhered to these requests.
Review quality was compared between author suggested and other reviewers, using the paired Mann-Whitney U test in BMC Microbiology and BMC Infectious Diseases (in which each article had one reviewer of each type), and using the unpaired test in the Journal of Inflammation.
The kappa value for the inter-observer reliability showed excellent agreement between the reviewers for study type (κ = 0.956, P < 0.01) and for levels of evidence (κ = 0.772, P < 0.01).
Reviewers recorded the type of effect measure (relative, absolute, both, none) reported in the article abstract and in the full text, tables, and figures of the article, including online appendices.
In all cases where a problem in care was judged to have contributed to death, reviewers reported the type of problem, its timing, and any associated causative or contributory factors before making a judgment as to whether the death was avoidable.
