Community Members as Reviewers of Medical Journal Manuscripts: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community members may provide useful perspectives on manuscripts submitted to medical journals.

Objective

To determine the impact of community members reviewing medical journal manuscripts.

Design

Randomized controlled trial involving 578 original research manuscripts submitted to two medical journals from June 2018 to November 2021.

Participants

Twenty-eight community members who were trained, supervised, and compensated.

Interventions

A total of 289 randomly selected control manuscripts were reviewed by scientific reviewers only. And 289 randomly selected intervention manuscripts were reviewed by scientific reviewers and one community member. Journal editorial teams used all reviews to make decisions about acceptance, revision, or rejection

SUBMITTER: Huml AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10160325 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature