Preserving blind peer review of electronic manuscript files.
Peer review of manuscripts for potential publication has become an intrinsic component of the scientific process, and is aimed at improving the manuscript's quality through unbiased, independent, and critical assessment by experts who are not on the journal's staff (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, 2003).
Jacobson
Ann F
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Kent State University, USA.
Schmidt
Kenneth
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Coeling
Harriet
H
D035081:Editorial Policies; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008373:Manuscripts as Topic; D015399:Nursing Research; D010380:Peer Review; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D011643:Publishing; D011786:Quality Control