A scoping review on the roles and tasks of peer reviewers in the manuscript review process in biomedical journals

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Research article
|   20 June 2019
A scoping review on the roles and tasks of peer reviewers in the manuscript review process in biomedical journals
Although peer reviewers play a key role in the manuscript review process, their roles and tasks are poorly defined. Clarity around this issue is important as it may influence the quality of peer reviewer reports. This scoping review explored the roles and tasks of peer reviewers of biomedical journals.
Authors: Ketevan Glonti, Daniel Cauchi, Erik Cobo, Isabelle Boutron, David Moher and Darko Hren