International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication. Prague, CZE, 1997/09.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, vol. 280, n° 3, 1998, pages 234-237, 12 réf., ISSN 0098-7484, USA
VAN ROOYEN (S.), GODLEE (F.), EVANS (S.), SMITH (R.), BLACK (N.)
Bmj. London. GBR, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London. GBR
Context.
Little research has been conducted into the quality of peer review and, in particular, the effects of blinding peer reviewers to authors'identities or masking peer reviewers'identities.
To determine whether concealing authors'identities from reviewers (blinding) and/or revealing the reviewer's identity to a coreviewer (unmasking) affects the quality of reviews, the time taken to carry out reviews, and the recommendation regarding publication.
Randomized trial of 527 consecutive manuscripts submitted to BMJ, which were randomized and each sent to 2 peer reviewers.
- Manuscripts were randomized as to whether the reviewers were unmasked, masked, or uninformed that a study was taking place.
Two reviewers for each manuscript were randomized to receive either a blinded or an unblinded version.
Mean total quality score, time taken to carry out the review, and recommendation regarding publication.
Of the 527 manuscripts entered into the study, 467 (89%) were successfully randomized and followed up.
The mean total quality score was 2.87.
There was little or no difference in review quality between the masked and unmasked groups (scores of 2.82 and 2.96, respectively) and between the blinded and unblinded groups (scores of 2.87 and 2.90, respectively).
There was no apparent Hawthorne effect. (...)
Mots-clés BDSP : Article, Qualité, Sélection, Etude comparée, Homme
Mots-clés Pascal : Article, Médecine, Qualité, Sélection, Auteur, Etude comparative, Homme, Littérature scientifique, Revue médicale, Divulgation
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Article, Medicine, Quality, Selection, Author, Comparative study, Human, Scientific literature
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