COMMENT
The peer review system is the soul of the Scientific journals. This process became an institutionalized part of the scholarly process in the latter half of the twentieth century (11. Manchikanti L, Kaye AD, Boswell MV, Hirsch JA. Medical journal peer review: process and bias. Pain Physician. 2015;18:E1-E14.). The serious review process is done by experts on the topic studied and is completely free depending on the goodwill and talent of the reviewers. The process of peer review is hard but improve the quality of published scientific manuscripts (22. Margalida A, Colomer MÀ. Improving the peer-review process and editorial quality: key errors escaping the review and editorial process in top scientific journals. Peer J. 2016;4:e1670.).
In 2020 the International Brazilian Journal of Urology received more than 900 papers and the reviewers were very important to the entire process of our Journal. As a Editor-in-Chief I would like to thanks all the reviewers and specially the Doctors: Alexandre Danilovic, MD (Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP); Ralf Anding, MD (University Hospital Basel); John Denstedt, MD, PhD (Western University Canada); Trushar Patel, MD (University of South Florida) and Gustavo Ruschi Bechara, MD (Hospital Universitário Cassiano Antônio Moraes) who reviewed more than 5 articles during the year and strictly within the deadline.
Thanks a lot!!!!!
Luciano A. Favorito
Editor-in-Chief
International Brazilian Journal of Urology
REFERENCES
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1Manchikanti L, Kaye AD, Boswell MV, Hirsch JA. Medical journal peer review: process and bias. Pain Physician. 2015;18:E1-E14.
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2Margalida A, Colomer MÀ. Improving the peer-review process and editorial quality: key errors escaping the review and editorial process in top scientific journals. Peer J. 2016;4:e1670.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
18 Nov 2020 -
Date of issue
Jan-Feb 2021
