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?
We will need to do in-depth research on what makes the best systems successful the peer-review committees? recruiting more primary-care doctors and nurses? putting doctors on salary?
However, some of the most influential conclusions summarized in its reports have neither been based upon truly independent research, nor properly vetted through accepted peer- review processes.
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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.
Does AGU take issue with the accuracy of East Anglia-CRU quotations I cited as evidence of serious integrity and peer-review problems within important segments of the climate science community?
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However some of its most influential conclusions that are summarized in its reports have neither been based upon truly independent research, nor properly vetted through accepted peer- review processes.
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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.
Such lapses of integrity are not unique to China, but poor peer-review mechanisms, misguided incentives and a lack of checks on academic behaviour all allow fraud to be more common.
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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However, as Kamran Abbasi, deputy editor of the BMJ, laments, although the world at large looks at scientific peer-review the system journals use to keep their authors accurate and honest as a sacred process, it is in fact imperfect.
While the data showed no racial disparity in award rates for grant proposals that earned high priority scores through peer-review, it seems that mediocre proposals from white scientists were 10% more likely to ultimately receive funding than mediocre proposals from black scientists.
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 review is far from perfect - especially in a politicised arena such as climate science where some journals exist with a specific, directed slant on the issue.
Three randomly-selected members of the council - India, Spain and Benin - will now write the peer review of the Sri Lankan rights situation which will be presented to the full Human Rights Council for approval.
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