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Journal of General Internal Medicine
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 12/2015

01-12-2015 | Editorial

Rumors of the Demise of Peer Review are Premature

Authors: Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH, Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 12/2015

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“Peer review is faith-based (not evidence-based), slow, wasteful, ineffective, largely a lottery, easily abused, prone to bias, doesn’t detect fraud and irrelevant.” …
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Metadata
Title
Rumors of the Demise of Peer Review are Premature
Authors
Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH
Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 12/2015
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-015-3518-9

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