THE EFFECTS OF BLINDING ON ACCEPTANCE OF RESEARCH PAPERS BY PEER-REVIEW
THE EFFECTS OF BLINDING ON ACCEPTANCE OF RESEARCH PAPERS BY PEER-REVIEW
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DOI:
10.1001/jama.272.2.143
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发表时间:
1994-07-13
影响因子:
120.7
通讯作者:
STRAUSS, B
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作者:
FISHER, M;FRIEDMAN, SB;STRAUSS, B
Objective.-To study whether reviewers aware of author identity are biased in favor of authors with more previous publications.Design.-Randomized controlled trial.Setting.-Editorial office of the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.Participants.-Two ''blinded'' and two ''nonblinded'' reviewers assigned to 57 consecutive manuscripts submitted between September 1991 and March 1992.Outcome Measures.-Spearman rank correlation coefficients were used to compare the sum of rating scores of 1 to 5 (1, accept; 5, reject) given by the two blinded reviewers, the two nonblinded reviewers, and the editors to the number of articles published previously by the first and senior authors (as determined from requested curricula vitae). Blinded reviewers were sent a questionnaire asking whether they could determine the identity of the authors, how they knew, and whether they thought blinding changed the quality or difficulty of their review.Results.-The Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test disclosed no differences between blinded and nonblinded scores. The number of previous articles by the senior author was significantly correlated (P