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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2001;286:2931-2932.

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Barcelona—In the modern era of evidence-based medicine, medical journals and those who oversee them provide a critical bridge between research and practice. The soundness of this bridge has been under the scrutiny of editors of biomedical journals, researchers, and others who convened here for the Fourth International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication, looking for ways to ensure that the process of peer review provides essential quality control in the publication of new research findings.

The study of peer review and scientific publishing is a young and evolving field that comprises research on the editorial practices of biomedical journals—"a new science," in the words of Drummond Rennie, MD, a deputy editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), who chaired the meeting, which was sponsored by JAMA and the BMJ Publishing Group. And like any fledgling field, peer review is experiencing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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