RT Journal
A1 Rennie D, Flanagin A, Godlee F, Groves T
T1 SEventh international congress on peer review and biomedical publication, september 2013—call for research
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD February 15
VO 307
IS 7
SP 726
OP 727
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.150
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.150
AB 
The primary aims of biomedical peer review are to select and improve research and other academic work for funding and publication by identifying and reducing bias and increasing the validity, quality, credibility, and worth of scientific reports. This remains a difficult balance.1 Widespread advances in technology and communications have improved the speed, efficiency, and reach of scientific publication and have transformed the ways scientists, authors, reviewers, editors, clinicians, and the public interact with information and with each other. But these same advances also threaten the very nature of peer review and scientific publication. The need to critically evaluate the purpose, foundations, developments, and future prospects of this entire enterprise—from research proposal through and beyond publication—has never been stronger.