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Is It Time to Standardize Ethics Guiding the Peer Review Process?

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Lipids

Abstract

While most scientific journals have well defined ethics requirements for authors, very few journals explicitly specify the ethics standards that govern the actions of editors, editorial board members, and reviewers. We believe it is time to create a standardized policy for all medical and scientific journals that guides the ethical conduct of all stakeholders in the peer review process.

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  1. Brain Physiology and Metabolism Section, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA

    Francesca Bosetti & Christopher D. Toscano

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  1. Francesca Bosetti
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Correspondence to Francesca Bosetti.

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Bosetti, F., Toscano, C.D. Is It Time to Standardize Ethics Guiding the Peer Review Process?. Lipids 43, 107–108 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-007-3134-5

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