Designs of trials assessing interventions to improve the peer review process: a vignette-based survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We aimed to determine the best study designs for assessing interventions to improve the peer review process according to experts' opinions. Furthermore, for interventions previously evaluated, we determined whether the study designs actually used were rated as the best study designs.

Methods

Study design: A series of six vignette-based surveys exploring the best study designs for six different interventions (training peer reviewers, adding an expert to the peer review process, use of reporting guidelines checklists, blinding peer reviewers to the results (i.e., results-free peer review), giving incentives to peer reviewers, and post-publication peer review). Vignette construction: Vignettes were case scenarios of trials assessing interventions aimed at improving t

SUBMITTER: Heim A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6192007 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature