At the same time they submitted four manuscripts to American Geophysical Union journals for peer-review.
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However, this post, which is the first of two parts, deals primarily with editorial peer-review practices.
All this could change the traditional form of the peer-review process, at least for the publication of papers.
If reputable scientists are basing their opinions on bad data then maybe we need a different peer-review process.
All proposals will be evaluated by the UKNC through a two-stage peer-review process.
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Time on the system will be free, but access will be granted based on a national peer-review board of scientists.
The authors of the paper, the peer-review process at Health Affairs and the media all failed in their responsibilities to the public.
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On first presenting our plan at a peer-review meeting held with leading NGOs, we were all but laughed out of the room.
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Publishers insist that high prices are necessary to ensure quality and cover the costs of managing the peer-review process, editing and distribution.
The circumstances surrounding the rejection reveal the flexibility editors have to adjust the level of rigor of the peer-review process for specific papers.
So far, only four countries have submitted themselves to the Nepad peer-review procedure, and none of the country reports has been made public.
So will the peer-review mechanism survive in its intended, rigorous form?
My friend Melissa Pierce is running the Pitch Refinery, a two-day live event and a year-round online peer-review network, kicking off in Chicago on September 22nd and 23rd.
Looking forward, we propose that accusations of this sort, particularly those that purport to reveal fatal flaws or deceit, be subjected to fact-finding and full peer-review before publication.
He wrote in an editorial that making sure articles were free of bias was putting too much of a strain on the journal's peer-review process, often leading to extensive revisions.
It also deserves mention that the publication of this article represents an abject, egregious failure of peer-review and editorial competence at Food and Chemical Toxicology, the journal in which it appeared.
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Such margins (37%, up from 36% in 2010) are possible because the journals' content is largely provided free by researchers, and the academics who peer-review their papers are usually unpaid volunteers.
Under a pilot scheme due to begin next autumn, heads will be invited to inspect each other's schools, drawing on their knowledge of school management and leadership in a new kind of peer-review system.
The researchers who headed the new study (which has not been published in a peer-review journal, but will be presented at an upcoming conference) asked 600 adults in Germany about their feelings while using social media.
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And, once lost, common sense can only be recovered, it seems, by way of science and peer-group review.
Lord Lawson said that any attempt to prevent the disclosure of data was "sinister", and that the current scrutiny of scientific research through so-called peer review processes was unacceptable.
Peer-reviewed journals have different procedures for selecting referees to review article submissions.
It was conducted by two authors that work for NMFS. This is an in-house process that is subject to very little peer review.
More than 300 scientists were involved in the peer review process before the report's publication, co-ordinated by the US Global Change Research Programme.
Schools gain and maintain accreditation via a peer review system, and though some deans find the required self-reflection to be useful, others say the time and resources spent on paperwork and preparing for campus visits aren't worth it.
The e-mail review panel will look further at evidence for manipulation or suppression of data, for poor practice with respect to peer review, at attempts to circumvent FOIA and at how the e-mails got out in the first place.
He cited flaws in the design of the study that render any conclusions meaningless and asked whether the study passed peer review due to incompetence of the reviewers and editors or due to conflicts-of-interest among the former.
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The guide's league table is compiled using a number of criteria including student satisfaction, research quality, academic peer review, entrance qualifications held by new students, degree results achieved, drop-out rates and graduate employment levels.
Former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord Macdonald, a Liberal Democrat peer who oversaw the government's wider review of terrorism legislation, said the T-Pims, as they are known, were "an improvement on what went before".
The proposal, which also called for an independent review of the assessment plans, was put forward by crossbench peer Baroness Grey-Thompson during day four of report stage of the Welfare Reform Bill on 17 January 2012.
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