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01-01-2014 | 2013 SSAT Presidential Address

2013 SSAT Presidential Address: Peer Review

Author: Jeffrey B. Matthews

Published in: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery | Issue 1/2014

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It has been my privilege this year to serve as president of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT). I serve a second role in our society (together with Dr. Charles J. Yeo of Jefferson Medical College) as coeditor of our official journal, The Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (JoGS). Because the core function of a journal editor is the orchestration of peer review, I chose “peer review” as the topic of today’s address. I will provide some historical context for the relationship of editorial peer review to academic societies such as ours, uncover some of its warts, discuss how peer review might be improved, and how it may evolve in the rapidly changing world of digital information flow. …

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Title: 2013 SSAT Presidential Address: Peer Review
Author: Jeffrey B. Matthews
Publication date: 01-01-2014
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery / Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 1091-255X
Electronic ISSN: 1873-4626
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-013-2342-y

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