The multiple rounds of review, revision and resubmission often required before a paper is finally accepted has led to substantial reviewer fatigue, with large numbers of reviewers often involved with the peer review process for a single article.
While her research was promising, he said, she ran into problems with the peer review process, with experts demanding more data.
Fifth, the scoping review can be used by publishers and editors to assist with the peer review of manuscripts describing these types of knowledge syntheses.
In a survey of reviewers at 41 nursing journals, most responded that it took one to five reviews before they were comfortable with the peer review process, with many reporting benefit from specific editor feedback [ 8].
I would like to thank James du Preez for assisting with the peer review process for Biotechnology for Biofuels and Helen Whitaker, Philippa Stevens, and Emma Laycock at BioMed Central for their help in the editorial process.
Working with the peer review abstraction contractor, West Virginia Medical Institute, the VHA Office of Quality and Performance generated a list of patients that was transmitted to VHA facilities where both paper and electronic medical records were manually abstracted by trained abstractors using standard reporting forms.
This is a Cochrane Collaboration systematic review, with the protocol peer reviewed, published, and available online.
Among biomedical and health related press releases issued by Russell Group universities in 2011, 33% to 40% contained exaggerated statements compared with the corresponding peer reviewed journal articles.
For females, (β = −0.1, p = 0.03), the frequency of encountering personal attacks in reviewers' comments (β = −0.1, p = 0.002) and the frequency of imposition of unnecessary references by reviewers (β = −0.06, p = 0.04) were independently and inversely associated with agreement that "the peer review system is fair".
Associated with each article is an array of correspondence with editors, authors, reviewers for the peer review system, and finally the production team.
