International Electronic Journal of Medicine (IEJM) is an open access electronic journal that covers all aspects of medicine and medical sciences. We invite authors from all over the world to send their manuscripts to IEJM. Manuscripts submitted to IEJM go through a peer review process before publication in IEJM. We will ask our reviewers to finish the papers’ review within two weeks. Authors a...

Peer review is fundamentally a cooperative process between scientists in a community who agree to review each other's work in an unbiased fashion. Peer review is the foundation for decisions concerning publication in journals, awarding of grants, and academic promotion. Here we perform a laboratory study of open and closed peer review based on an online game. We show that when reviewer behavior...

S elf-regulation is a defining hallmark and privilege of the medical profession. A fundamental component of self-regulation is peer review of adverse clinical events to support high-quality care. Peer review has been part of medical practice for centuries, with reports of its use in ancient Greece and 11th century Arabic medicine. 1 In the United States, peer review initially occurred as morbid...

Science for Conservation presents the results of investigations contracted to science providers outside the Department of Conservation. Reports are subject to peer review within the Department and, in some instances, to a review from outside both the Department and the science providers.

Science for Conservation presents the results of investigations contracted to science providers outside the Department of Conservation. Reports are subject to peer review within the Department and, in some instances, to a review from outside both the Department and the science providers. The Efficacy of possum control in reducing forest dieback in the Otira and Deception Catchments, Central Wes...

Science for Conservation presents the results of investigations contracted to science providers outside the Department of Conservation. Reports are subject to peer review within the Department and, in some instances, to a review from outside both the Department and the science providers.

Science for Conservation presents the results of investigations contracted to science providers outside the Department of Conservation. Reports are subject to peer review within the Department and, in some instances, to a review from outside both the Department and the science providers.

Peer review is a widely accepted instrument for raising the quality of science. Peer review limits the enormous unstructured influx of information and the sheer amount of dubious data, which in its absence would plunge science into chaos. In particular, peer review offers the benefit of eliminating papers that suffer from poor craftsmanship or methodological shortcomings, especially in the expe...

Critics of the journal system, for various reasons, suggest that peer review is merely one value-add in the publishing process, and that it might be provided by others or in other ways, thus not necessarily requiring a publisher. In contrast, I am going to argue that peer review in journal publishing is essential to the scientific system, and also connects it to the wider knowledge economy. Mor...