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Infect. Immun. doi:10.1128/IAI.00018-09
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Is Peer Review Censorship?

Arturo Casadevall* and Ferric C. Fang

Departments of Microbiology & Immunology, and Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461-1975; Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195-7242

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: casadeva{at}aecom.yu.edu.


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Abstract

Given the unpleasantness of having one's work rejected (10), as well as a desire for more rapid communication of scientific findings, some scientists have expressed nostalgia for the good old days when nearly any submitted manuscript was accepted for publication, and some have even compared peer review to censorship (23, 27). ...






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