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ArticlePharmacy practice

How many manuscripts should I peer review per year?

Fernando Fernandez-Llimos, Teresa M Salgado, Fernanda S Tonin, Pharmacy Practice 2019 peer reviewers

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Article in Pharmacy practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Fernando Fernandez-LlimosInstitute for Medicines Research (iMed.ULisboa), Department of Social Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidade de Lisboa . Lisbon ( Portugal ). fllimos@ff.up.pt.ORCID 0000-0002-8529-9595
Teresa M SalgadoCenter for Pharmacy Practice Innovation, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, VA ( United States ). tmsalgado@vcu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2708-7145
Fernanda S ToninDepartment of Pharmacy, Federal University of Parana. Curitiba ( Brazil ). fer_stumpf_tonin@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-4262-8608
Pharmacy Practice 2019 peer reviewers

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peer review provides the foundation for the scholarly publishing system. The conventional peer review system consists of using authors of articles as reviewers for other colleagues' manuscripts in a collaborative-basis system. However, authors complain about a theoretical overwhelming number of invitations to peer review. It seems that authors feel that they are invited to review many more manuscripts than they should when taking into account their participation in the scholarly publishing system. The high number of scientific journals and the existence of predatory journals were reported as potential causes of this excessive number of reviews required. In this editorial, we demonstrate that the number of reviewers required to publish a given number of articles depends exclusively on the journals' rejection rate and the number of reviewers intended per manuscript. Several initiatives to overcome the peer review crises are suggested.

Indexed as

Open Access PublishingPeer Review, ResearchPeriodicals as Topic

Identifiers

PMID32161628
PMCPMC7055491

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.