Peer-reviewed
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I chose a JAMA paper at random.
The references look suspicious to me.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2533698
This guy has 68 references. Nobody is going to check all that.
They are probably mostly fake.
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Well I’m a peer reviewer for a couple of journals. And I do check references. Not all of course but certainly ones that are critical.
I once specifically rejected a manuscript when I found a reference that said the opposite of what was referenced.
I also check to see if claims like “to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time blah blah blah” to see if that’s really true.
And I certainly check to see if there are publications which make the same point but with better data.
Peer reviewing is important, I learn a helluva lot when I review and it helps me anticipate question from reviewers on my papers. And I get really pissed off when I sense a reviewer rejected without really making an honest effort at understanding the paper.
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@Klaus said in Peer-reviewed:
I don't know about medicine, but when I'm assigned to review a paper in my area of expertise, I usually don't need to look up reference s because I have already read those papers and remember the main results.
Yeah, but your field is so narrow....
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I have no peers.
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I have an 11 month old peer. Time to change his diaper. I don’t understand why you guys want him to read scientific and medical papers, though.