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Call for Research

Drummond Rennie, MD; Annette Flanagin, RN, MA; Fiona Godlee, MRCP; Jane Smith, MSc

JAMA. 2007;298(20):2420-2421.

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Peer review, whether of manuscripts submitted for publication or of grant applications submitted for funding, is a central part of the scientific enterprise. Since the first announcement in 1986, we have held 5 Peer Review Congresses at 4-year intervals, and their success is demonstrated by the stimulus they provided to investigate the process whereby scientific work is selected, published, disseminated, and accessed.^1-5 This progress has been measured both in increases in the number of abstracts submitted to the Peer Review Congresses and MEDLINE citations.⁶

We now announce the Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 10-12, 2009. This congress, organized by JAMA and the BMJ Publishing Group, will feature 3 days of presentations of original research. As with the previous congresses, our aim is to improve . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliations: Dr Rennie (drummond.rennie@ucsf.edu) is Deputy Editor and Ms Flanagin is Managing Deputy Editor, JAMA, Chicago, Illinois; Dr Godlee is Editor in Chief and Ms Smith is Deputy Editor, BMJ, London, England.