JournalReview.org was an online interdisciplinary
journal club.
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by Jeffrey I. Ellis, MD, Lori Ellis, Adam Penstein, MD, Aryeh Goldsmith. Eleventh Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Telemedicine Association May 7–10, 2006 It hosted an international community of doctors and existed for the purpose of facilitating critical discussion and
post-publication peer review of all
medical literature indexed by the
National Library of Medicine in
PubMed. It was part of the movement towards
open peer review,
telemedicine,
and
self-archiving/
open access
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.
Contents
It was
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-based and consisted of commentary and discussion related to published
medical literature.
Members could participate individually, or by creating their own "
journal clubs" – collections of members who were actively participating in discussion of mutual interest. Some residency training programs adopted this resource to meet
ACGME requirements. Members utilized this resource to suggest future research, and to identify
bias or limitations to published work. Educators utilized this resource to help stimulate and document critical discussion of assigned journal articles. Authors utilized this resource to answer questions about and provide supplement to their published work. This resource was also utilized by the public as a vehicle to better understand published trade literature.
Members consists of all the
major specialties as well areas of basic science. Approximately 7,000 doctors, health care professionals, researchers, residency training programs, and students from all over the world participate. It was listed as a recommended resources by the
New York Public Library
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, the
Dalhousie University
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College of Pharmacy, the
State University of New York
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Downstate Medical Library, as well as several other related websites.
See also
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Peerage of Science
Peerage of Science was a scientific peer review service aimed at improving "the current peer review system and make the peer review process more scientific, fair and transparent". The company was founded in 2011 by the scientists Janne Koti ...
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Publons
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PubPeer
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External links
JournalReview.org Website
American medical websites
Academic publishing
Peer review