掩盖作者身份是否会提高同行评审的质量? 一个随机对照试验.一个随机对照试验. 美国 PEER 调查人员
A C Justice1, M K Cho, M A Winker
1Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Ohio 44106, USA. acj@po.cwru.edu
JAMA
|July 24, 1998
概括
将同行评审者掩盖在作者身份上并没有改善生物医学期刊的评论质量. 这种缺乏效果可能源于难以成功掩盖知名作者,他们可能从盲目的评论中获益最多.
科学领域:
- 医学杂志同行评审 医学杂志同行评审
- 科学出版伦理学 出版伦理学
背景情况:
- 作者的认可可能会损害评论员的客观性.
- 之前的单期刊研究表明,作者掩盖可能会改善评论质量.
研究的目的:
- 评估是否掩盖评论员对作者身份的掩盖通常会提高生物医学期刊的评论质量.
- 在同行评审中评估标准作者掩盖技术的有效性.
主要方法:
- 一项随机对照试验,涉及五家主要生物医学期刊的外部手稿评论.
- 标准掩盖实践和掩盖/不掩盖的审查员分配之间的审查质量的比较.
- 评论质量由作者和编辑在5分利克特级别上评估.
主要成果:
- 掩盖和不掩盖的评论之间在所感知的评论质量上没有显著差异.
- 作者掩盖经常没有成功 (68%的总体成功率).
- 对于知名作者的手稿,掩盖成功率较低,他们可能从盲目化中获益最多.
结论:
- 目前在同行评审中对作者进行掩盖的做法并不能明显提高评审质量.
- 在有效地掩盖知名作家的挑战可能会否定盲目的潜在好处.
- 对强大的掩护策略进行进一步的研究是有必要的.
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