Peer review system must be improved
29th July 2011A report from the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee has said the peer review system used by many medical journals before they publish new research is in need of a radical overhaul.
The report from the committee of MPs says more checks, transparency, regulation, and sharing of best practice is needed and that prepublication peer review has evolved in a "piecemeal and haphazard". The committee concluded that to allow clinicians and scientists to follow and build on research findings, they should aim for a gold standard of making their data fully disclosed and publically available.
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Title: Peer review system must be improved
Author:
Martine Hamilton
Article Id: 19270
Date Added: 29th Jul 2011