Developing and evaluating criteria to help reviewers of biomedical informatics manuscripts.

ABSTRACT: Peer-reviewed publication of scientific research results represents the most important means of their communication. The authors have annually reviewed a large heterogeneous set of papers to produce the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook of Medical Informatics. To support an objective and high-quality review process, the authors attempted to provide reviewers with a set of refined quality criteria, comprised of 80 general criteria and an additional 60 criteria for specific types of manuscripts. Authors conducted a randomized controlled trial, with 18 reviewers, to evaluate application of the refined criteria on review outcomes. Whereas the trial found that reviewers applying the criteria graded papers more strictly (lower overall scores), and that junior reviewer

SUBMITTER: Ammenwerth E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC212789 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature