Peer Review Is an Effective Screening Process to Evaluate Medical Manuscripts

The data indicate that the review process serves as a sieve and influences whether manuscripts are published in core medical journals, as demonstrated by the fact that rejected manuscripts often were not published in other indexed medical journals.

Abstract

Our data indicate that the review process serves as a sieve and influences whether manuscripts are published in core medical journals. This was demonstrated by the fact that rejected manuscripts often were not published in other indexed medical journals.