[Irtalk] Open peer review could result in better quality of peer review | EurekAlert! Science News

[Hilton Gibson]

Whether or not a research article has been peer reviewed openly can
seemingly make a difference to the quality of the peer review, according to
research carried out by BioMed Central's Research Integrity Group and Frank
Dudbridge from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. *When two
similar journals were compared, articles that underwent an open peer review
showed a 5% improvement in the quality of the peer review reports compared
to those that underwent a single blind peer review.*

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/bc-opr092815.php
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