Is Double-Blinded Peer Review Necessary? The Effect of Blinding on Review Quality

Authors :: Sunitha Malay
Lin Zhong
Kevin C. Chung
Melissa J. Shauver
Rod J. Rohrich
Aaron Weinstein
Source :: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 136:1369-1377
Publication Year :: 2015
Publisher :: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2015.
Abstract: Background:The review process can be completely open, double-blinded, or somewhere in between. Double-blinded peer review, where neither the authors’ nor peer reviewers’ identities are shared with each other, is thought to be the fairest system, but there is evidence that it does not affect reviewer

Subjects :: medicine.medical_specialty
Medical education
Blinding
Double blinded
business.industry
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education
Alternative medicine
MEDLINE
Affect (psychology)
medicine
Surgery
Quality (business)
business
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