Does mentoring new peer reviewers improve review quality? A randomized trial
Houry Debra; Green Steven; Callaham Michael · 2012 · BMC Medical Education
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Abstract
Abstract Background Prior efforts to train medical journal peer reviewers have not improved subsequent review quality, although such interventions were general and brief. We hypothesized that a manuscript-specific and more extended intervention pairing new reviewers with high-quality senior reviewers as mentors would improve subsequent review quality. Methods Over a four-year period we randomly assigned all new reviewers for Annals of Emergency Medicine to receive our standard written informational materials alone, or these materials plus a new mentoring intervention. For this program we paire
Abstract by Houry Debra; Green Steven; Callaham Michael, BMC Medical Education (2012) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: DOAJ · DOI 10.1186/1472-6920-12-83