With great power comes great responsibility: the importance of rejection, power, and editors in the practice of scientific publishing.

Peer review is an important element of scientific communication but deserves quantitative examination. We used data from the handling service manuscript Central for ten mid-tier ecology and evolution journals to test whether number of external reviews completed improved citation rates for all accept...

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Main Authors: Christopher J Lortie, Stefano Allesina, Lonnie Aarssen, Olyana Grod, Amber E Budden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3875543?pdf=render