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Peer review of articles on global burden of disease

Ana Marušić, Darko Hren and Matko Marušić
CMAJ March 15, 2005 172 (6) 727; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1041755
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Paula Rochon and associates1 call for a better reflection of the global burden of disease in clinical trials published in leading general medical journals. In extending their coverage to global health issues, large Western medical journals may have difficulties in finding reviewers from countries with small research communities. We surveyed 236 (63.8%) of the tenured faculty members at 4 medical schools in Croatia, a small country with disease burden related to war and post-communist socioeconomic transition,2 about their willingness to review for a large journal, such as The Lancet, and the small Croatian Medical Journal, as well as the criteria they would use in reviewing manuscripts.3 More than half of the respondents (126 or 53.4%) had not published in either journal, and only 10 (4.2%) had published in both journals. A few respondents (23 or 9.7%) were not interested in reviewing for either journal, and only a single person expressed a desire to review for The Lancet but not the Croatian Medical Journal (Table 1). A surprising 169 (71.6%) of the respondents said they would review only for the Croatian Medical Journal, and a further 43 (18.2%) that they would review for both journals. Most respondents stated that, if they were to serve as reviewers, they would be equally strict for both journals or would perform a stricter review for The Lancet (Table 1). Respondents who wanted to review for The Lancet were generally less experienced reviewers who read that journal but who thought that reviewers' recommendations were not important for editorial decisions.

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Our survey results are valid only for Croatia but may be indicative of the beliefs of researchers in other less developed research communities. These results indicate that bridging the publishing gap between the global burden of disease and Western medical journals may not be so easy, and those journals should therefore become active in building research and publishing capacity in the developing world. Understanding the behaviour, perceptions and concerns of potential reviewers in small scientific communities may facilitate the identification of good reviewers and could also lead to the publication of studies relevant to international health.

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    Rochon PA, Mashari A, Cohen A, Misra A, Laxer D, Streiner DL, et al. Relation between randomized controlled trials published in leading general medical journals and the global burden of disease. CMAJ 2004;170(11):1673-7.
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    Katic M, Juresa V, Oreskovic S. Family medicine in Croatia: past, present, and forthcoming challenges. Croat Med J 2004;45(5):543-9.
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    Marušić A, Lukic IK, Marušić M, McNamee D, Sharp D, Horton R. Peer review in a small and a big medical journal: case study of the Croatian Medical Journal and The Lancet. Croat Med J 2002;43(3):286-9.
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