To accept or reject? A guide to peer reviewing of medical journal papers

Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Einarson, Thomas R ^a,b   Koren, Gideon ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critique; Journal; Manuscript; Peer review; Publication; Research design

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; HUMAN; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD;

HUMANS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84868374292     PISSN: 17106222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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