Prevalence of Short Peer Reviews in 3 Leading General Medical Journals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

High-quality peer reviews are often thought to be essential to ensuring the integrity of the scientific publication process, but measuring peer review quality is challenging. Although imperfect, review word count could potentially serve as a simple, objective metric of review quality.

Objective

To determine the prevalence of very short peer reviews and how often they inform editorial decisions on research articles in 3 leading general medical journals.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study compiled a data set of peer reviews from published, full-length original research articles from 3 general medical journals (The BMJ, PLOS Medicine, and BMC Medicine) between 2003 and 2022. Eligible articles were those with peer review data; all peer

SUBMITTER: Geldsetzer P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10722334 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature