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Masking manuscripts for the peer review process
Isenberg et al investigated the effect of masking the author’s identity to peer reviewers in a retrospective study of 531 manuscripts submitted to Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Reviewer’s knowledge of the author’s identity had no effect on review quality. However, fewer manuscripts were published when there was no idea of the author’s identity, compared with when it was allegedly known or suspected (p<0.0001). Manuscripts also had lower recommendation scores when there was no idea of the author’s identity compared with when it was allegedly known (p = 0.0001) or suspected (p = 0.004). The authors conclude that reviewers were more favourable when they allegedly knew or suspected the author’s identity suggesting that double masking may reduce reviewer bias.
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Primary chemotherapy for group D heritable retinoblastoma
Cohen et al report the ocular survival and event free survival following primary multiagent chemotherapy (six cycles of vincristine, etoposide and carboplatin) for 18 group D eyes with heritable bilateral …
