Peer Review in Health Sciences

This book has established itself as the authoritative text on health sciences peer review. Contributions from the world's leading figures discuss the state of peer review, question its role in the currently changing world of electronic journal publishing, and debate where it should go from here. The second edition has been thoroughly revised and new chapters added on qualitative peer review, training, consumers and innovation.

Tom Jefferson is the editor of Peer Review in Health Sciences, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.

Fiona Godlee has been editor in chief of The BMJ since 2005. She is the first female editor appointed in the journal's history and is also editorial director.

Contributors

vii

Preface

x

Introduction

xiii

1. Editorial peer review: its development and rationale

1

(13)

Drummond Rennie

2. Peer review of grant applications: a systematic review

14

(31)

Fiona Wood, Simon Wessely

3. The state of the evidence: what we know and what we don't know about journal peer review

45

(17)

John Overbeke, Elizabeth Wager

4. The effectiveness of journal peer review

62

(14)

Robert H Fletcher, Suzanne W Fletcher

5. Innovation and peer review

76

(15)

Drummond Rennie

6. Bias, subjectivity, chance, and conflict of interest in editorial decisions

91

(27)

Fiona Godlee, Kay Dickersin

7. Misconduct and journal peer review

118

(12)

Drummond Rennie

8. Peer review and the pharmaceutical industry

130

(10)

Elizabeth Wager, Andrew Herxheimer

9. Small journals and non-English language journals

140

(11)

Magne Nylenna, Tor-Arne Hagle, Ana Marusic

10. How to set up a peer review system

151

(13)

Jane Smith

11. The evaluation and training of peer reviewers

164

(19)

Michael Callaham

12. How to peer review a manuscript

183

(8)

David Moher, Alejandro R Jadad

13. Statistical peer review

191

(18)

Douglas G Altman, Kenneth F Schulz

14. Peer review of economic submissions

209

(10)

Vittorio Demicheli, John Hutton

15. How to peer review a qualitative manuscript

219

(17)

Jocalyn P Clark

16. Ethical conduct for reviewers of grant applications and manuscripts

236

(12)

Faith McLellan, Povl Riis

17. Non-peer review: consumer involvement in research review

248

(15)

Hilda Bastian

18. An author's guide to editorial peer review

263

(14)

Elizabeth Wager

19. Peer review on the internet: are there faster, fairer, more effective methods of peer review?

277

(20)

Craig Bingham

20. The use of systematic reviews for editorial peer reviewing: a population approach

297

(12)

Tom Jefferson, Jon Deeks

21. Alternatives to peer review I: peer and non-peer review

309

(3)

Andrew Odlyzko

22. Alternatives to peer review II: can peer review be better focused?

312

(10)

Paul Ginsparg

23. Peer review: some questions from Socrates

322

(7)

Christopher N Martyn

24. The future of peer review

329

(18)

Richard Smith

Appendix A: The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (the Vancouver Group)

347

(3)

Bruce P Squires

Appendix B: The World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

350

(3)

Bruce P Squires

Appendix C: Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

353

(4)

Alex Williamson, Richard Smith

Index

357

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