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BIOMATERIALS
Volume 28, Issue 34, Pages 5199-5203Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.07.004
Keywords
peer review; scientific publishing; professional conduct; quality control; responsibility
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The peer-review process remains a central part of the value and validity of scientific and technical publishing and proposal assessment. The peer review mechanism has many delicate components that should function most professionally and effectively for best results. An important central tenet is that all who seek to publish should freely avail themselves to review a commensurate load, considering many elements of professional conduct, ethics and responsibility in this process. The review itself should provide timely, unbiased, quality feedback to improve contributions to the system reviewers are serving. An additional component involves follow-on policing of published literature to assert its validity through consensus and validation. This short essay, examines our collective duties as contributors, reviewers, and readers to the integrity and safekeeping of this essential quality control process. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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