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1. Effect of using reporting guidelines during peer review on quality of final manuscripts submitted to a biomedical journal: masked randomised trial.

Author

Cobo, E., Corts, J., Ribera, J. M., Cardellach, F., Selva-O'Callaghan, A., Kostov, B., Garc¡a, L., Cirugeda, L., G Altman, D., Gonzalez, J. A., Sanchez, J. A., Miras, F., Urrutia, A., Fonollosa, V., Rey-Joly, C., and Vilardell, M.

Subjects
*AUTHORSHIP, *PROFESSIONAL peer review, *PUBLISHING, *CONFIDENCE intervals, *RESEARCH funding, *SCALE analysis (Psychology), *RANDOMIZED controlled trials, *RELATIVE medical risk, *DESCRIPTIVE statistics, *EVALUATION
Abstract

The article focuses on a study with regards to the use of reporting guidelines such as CONSORT and STROBE for the improvement of manuscript quality in biomedical journals. It says that the subject of the study were the research manuscripts acquired by the journal "Medicina Clínica" from May 2008 to April 2009. Results show that 34 papers were rejected from the 126 papers for conventional peer review, wherein the additional review shows an improvement in the quality of the manuscripts.

Published
2011
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