Peer review practices in academic medicine: how the example of orthopaedic surgery may help shift the paradigm?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To establish the current peer-reviewed practices in the discipline of orthopaedic surgery and correlate these to the journal's impact factor. Unfortunately, this is not receiving much attention and a critical literature gap in various disciplines; thus, determining the current practices in the discipline of orthopaedic surgery could provide valid insight that may be potentially applicable to other academic medicine disciplines as well.

Methods

Orthopaedic surgery journals belonging to the Journal Citation Reports were queried, and the following was extracted: impact factor (IF) and blinding practices: single (SBPR), double (DBPR), triple (TBPR), quadruple (QBPR), and open (OPR) blinding review process and possibility of author-suggested reviewer (ASR) and non-preferr

SUBMITTER: Chloros GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10079738 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature