Fourth International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication
- Drummond Rennie, MD
- Author Affiliations: Dr Rennie is Deputy Editor, JAMA, Chicago, Ill.
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In this issue of THE JOURNAL, we publish articles selected from those manuscripts submitted to JAMA following presentation at the Fourth International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication, held in Barcelona, Spain, September 14 to 16, 2001.
On what was, in Spain, the afternoon of September 11, those of us from JAMA, who had arrived in Barcelona a few days early to make final preparations for the Congress, sat in our hotel rooms, staring with horror at images of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and the devastation at the Pentagon.
Although our careful planning would probably go for naught, it was obvious, since terrorism works best when it most disrupts, that the Congress had to proceed. Yet it soon became apparent that all those from the Americas who were not already in Europe would be at best delayed, and, as events proved, unable to get …
