Scientific Journals are 'faith based': Is there science behind Peer review?

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 596-598

  Linkov, Faina ^a   Lovalekar, Mita ^a   LaPorte, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33845991183     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.99.12.596     Document Type: Editorial

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