{"id":4628,"date":"2014-12-31T19:56:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T02:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2014-12-31T19:56:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T02:56:48","slug":"peer-review-could-reject-breakthrough-manuscripts-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/12\/31\/peer-review-could-reject-breakthrough-manuscripts-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer review could reject breakthrough manuscripts, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_1636\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0516b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1636\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1636\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0516b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"My father's Hermes. Bought sometime in the 1950's.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0516b-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_0516b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My father&#8217;s Hermes. Bought sometime in the 1950&#8217;s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2014-12-peer-breakthrough-manuscripts.html?fb_action_ids=10152933968375549&amp;fb_action_types=og.likes\">Peer review could reject breakthrough manuscripts, study shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The peer review system serves as a gatekeeping system for scientific research, designed to ensure the publication of only the most well researched studies with the most important findings. Scientists depend on publication of their research in <a class=\"textTag\" href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/peer+reviewed+journals\/\" rel=\"tag\">peer reviewed journals<\/a> for career advancement. While peer review can prevent the publication of unimportant or poorly researched manuscripts, some scholars are concerned that it protects the status quo and suppresses innovation.<\/p>\n<p>To evaluate this claim, Siler and his team studied a dataset of manuscripts submitted to <i>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/i>, <i>British Medical Journal<\/i> and <i>The Lancet<\/i> in 2003 and 2004. These journals rejected 946 of the 1,008 manuscripts in the dataset. 722 of the rejected journals never made it past the editor&#8217;s desk and therefore, never even reached the peer review stage, at one or more of these three publications.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2014-12-peer-breakthrough-manuscripts.html#jCp\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2014-12-peer-breakthrough-manuscripts.html#jCp<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4628'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4628);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4628);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4628);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Peer review could reject breakthrough manuscripts, study shows. The peer review system serves as a gatekeeping system for scientific research, designed to ensure the publication of only the most well researched studies with the most important findings. Scientists depend on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/12\/31\/peer-review-could-reject-breakthrough-manuscripts-study-shows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[388,212],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","tag-academia","tag-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1cE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7038,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/09\/07\/worth-sharing-mieke-bal-lets-abolish-the-peer-review-system-media-theory\/","url_meta":{"origin":4628,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: Mieke Bal: Let\u2019s Abolish the Peer-Review System \u2013 Media Theory","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"September 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"EXCELLENT article. 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