Peer-Reviewed Articles and Public Health
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Public health reports in a scientific journal may have less impact if the news was released before the report was published. Researchers examined how a story about mad cow disease in the UK was covered by seven Italian newspapers. A total of 535 articles appeared in these papers after the British secretary of state for health announced the identification of 10 cases of a new-variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on March 20, 1996. Seventy-two percent appeared before the full details of these cases were described in the April 6th issue of The Lancet.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1998
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Changes to Manuscripts During the Editorial Process
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A model is presented for quantitatively characterizing the changes made to a manuscript by the peer review process. Researchers analyzed the changes made to 19 manuscripts submitted to the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1996-97. Changes were usually made because authors submitted too much information, too little information, inaccurate information, misplaced information, or structural problems. Changes were often made because information was missing or extraneous.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1998
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