The promise and perils of pre-publication review: A multi-agent simulation of biomedical discovery under varying levels of review stringency

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Shrager, Jeff ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sequoia Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PEER REVIEW; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PUBLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956296927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010782     Document Type: Article

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