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Nature 438, 282 (17 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438282d; Published online 16 November 2005

Peer-review system could gain from author feedback

Alon Korngreen1

  1. Faculty of Life Sciences and the Leslie and Susan Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel

The ever-growing number of submissions to many journals has necessarily increased the number of scientists serving as reviewers. Although the majority of these perform their duty honourably and provide valuable feedback to the authors, some produce bad or even damaging reviews, which may not be filtered by the editors.

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