Clinical Trial: Triple-masking v Double-masking: a Trial of Scientific Publication in Public Health
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Publication of Articles Submitted to the American Journal of Public Health
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Triple-masking v Double-masking: a Trial of Scientific Publication in Public Health
Brief Summary:
The trial is designed to determine whether knowledge of the identity of the authors, their institutions and of the reviewers of a given article submitted to American Journal of Public Health impacts the final editorial decision.The concept of triple masked editorial process (where editors are unaware of author identities and affiliations in addition to the authors' and reviewers' identities being masked from one another) compared to a double masked process (only authors' and reviewers'…
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