Reproducibility of peer review in clinical neuroscience. Is agreement between reviewers any greater than would be expected by chance alone?

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We aimed to determine the reproducibility of assessments made by independent reviewers of papers submitted for publication to clinical neuroscience journals and abstracts submitted for presentation at clinical neuroscience conferences. We studied two journals in which manuscripts were routinely assessed by two reviewers, and two conferences in which abstracts were routinely scored by multiple reviewers. Agreement between the reviewers as to whether manuscripts should be accepted, revised or r...

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Authors: Rothwell, P; Martyn, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Brain : a journal of neurology
• Volume: 123 ( Pt 9)
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 1964-1969
• Publication date: 2000-09-01
• DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.9.1964
• EISSN: 1460-2156
• ISSN: 0006-8950
• Language: English
• Keywords: Animals; Rats; Neurosciences; Manuscripts as Topic; Peer Review, Research; Humans; Periodicals as Topic; Observer Variation; Abstracting and Indexing as Topic; Reproducibility of Results