同行评审者是否按照期刊的指示对报道项目发表评论? 对两个随机试验的二次分析
Hillary Wnfried Ramirez1, Malena Chiaborelli1, Christof M Schönenberger2
1CLEAR Methods Center, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Journal of clinical epidemiology
|May 10, 2025
概括
提醒同行评审者报告准则增加了他们的关注度,但对已发表的研究质量的影响被拒绝的文章和未被解决的作者修订减弱了. 这突显了通过同行评审干预改善科学报告的挑战.
科学领域:
- 生物医学研究的研究.
- 科学出版业的科学出版.
- 同行评审是同行评审的过程.
背景情况:
- 同行评审员在确保科学手稿的可靠性和清晰性方面发挥着至关重要的作用.
- 报告准则,如CONSORT和SPIRIT,对于透明地传达研究方法和研究结果至关重要.
- 之前的研究表明,提醒同行评审者关于关键报告项目并没有提高发表文章的质量.
研究的目的:
- 调查旨在改善发表的生物医学文章报告质量的干预措施失败背后的原因.
- 分析在哪个阶段提醒同行评审人员报告准则的干预失去了效果.
主要方法:
- 对来自两项随机对照试验 (RCT) 的同行评审报告的二次分析,涉及提交给生物医学期刊的手稿.
- 干预组审查员收到了关于10个关键报告项目的提醒;对照组没有.
- 提取同行评审报告以识别关于10个关键报告项目的提及和澄清请求.
主要成果:
- 与对照组相比,提醒在干预组中增加了同行评审者对报告项目的澄清请求的8.0%.
- 当仅考虑被接受和发表的手稿时,这种差异减少到4.2%.
- 当考虑作者实际执行的修订时,该效应进一步减少到2.6%.
结论:
- 提醒同行评审者提高他们对报告准则的注意力,并增加了相关请求.
- 这些提醒的积极影响被文章的拒绝和作者未能实施所要求的更改显著减弱.
- 同行评审过程本身,包括拒绝率和作者合规性,可以缓和旨在提高报告质量的干预措施的有效性.
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