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PEDIATRICS Vol. 104 No. 1 July 1999, pp. 106

SPECIAL COMMENTARY:
A New Capability: Postpublication Peer Review for Pediatrics

Kent R. Anderson

Director, Division of Medical Journals and Professional Periodicals American Academy of Pediatrics Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098 JEROLD F. LUCEY, MD Editor-in-Chief, Pediatrics Burlington, VT 05401

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Beginning with this month's issue of Pediatrics, we will introduce a new and potentially transformational capability for the journal via its on-line version. We are calling this feature "Postpublication Peer Review," or P3R.

Traditional peer review is conducted by one or more (preferably two or more) respected peers during a prepublication screening process. For Pediatrics, this process eliminates nearly 80% of the manuscripts submitted to the journal in any given year. Once a study is published, however, a slow and rather cumbersome method of subsequent review, via Letters to the Editor, has been the only direct feedback mechanism available to authors, with subsequent studies being the other, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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