Who reviews the reviewers? Feasibility of using a fictitious manuscript to evaluate peer reviewer performance

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3 I, 1998, Pages 310-317

  Baxt, W G ^a   Waeckerle, J F ^a   Berlin, J A ^a   Callaham, M L ^a  

^a Ctr Clin Epidemiol Biostatist   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

EID: 0031709291     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(98)70006-X     Document Type: Article

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