TY - JOUR T1 - SEventh international congress on peer review and biomedical publication, september 2013—call for research AU - Rennie D AU - Flanagin A AU - Godlee F AU - Groves T Y1 - 2012/02/15 N1 - 10.1001/jama.2012.150 JO - JAMA SP - 726 EP - 727 VL - 307 IS - 7 N2 - The primary aims of biomedical peer review are to select and improve research and other academic work for funding and publication by identifying and reducing bias and increasing the validity, quality, credibility, and worth of scientific reports. This remains a difficult balance.1 Widespread advances in technology and communications have improved the speed, efficiency, and reach of scientific publication and have transformed the ways scientists, authors, reviewers, editors, clinicians, and the public interact with information and with each other. But these same advances also threaten the very nature of peer review and scientific publication. The need to critically evaluate the purpose, foundations, developments, and future prospects of this entire enterprise—from research proposal through and beyond publication—has never been stronger. SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.150 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.150 ER -