Editorial peer reviewers' recommendations at a general medical journal: are they reliable and do editors care?

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Published in PLoS One on April 08, 2010

Authors

Richard L Kravitz1, Peter Franks, Mitchell D Feldman, Martha Gerrity, Cindy Byrne, William M Tierney

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America. rlkravitz@ucdavis.edu

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