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COVID’s impact on peer reviews: working together

Updated: May 6, 2021 Peer review has been a critical part of academic publishing for almost 300 years – assessing the quality and validity of a manuscript before publication. Fellow experts in the same field scrutinise research, findings, and ideas to maintain the integrity of science. But what happens when a pandemic, like COVID-19, arrives …

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trust in peer review

Eat three cucumbers a day to lose weight: The Importance of Trust

Updated: May 6, 2021 Trust is an obvious ingredient in peer review, isn’t it? We might think this is a rhetorical question, but often, it’s not. Working in the world of academia, we can too easily forget how a whole country – an entire world – trust in scientific research. The general population may not …

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