The effectiveness of the peer review process: Inter-referee agreement and predictive validity of manuscript refereeing at Angewandte chemie

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 47, Issue 38, 2008, Pages 7173-7178

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a   Daniel, Hans Dieter ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Manuscript refereeing; Peer review; Predictive validity

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE RATE; MANUSCRIPT REFEREEING; PEER REVIEW; PEER REVIEWS; PEER-REVIEW PROCESS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY;

EID: 53249100836     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200800513     Document Type: Review

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