Factors influencing review quality of reviewers for journals of medical universities
Yong Li · Bianji xuebao · 2011
To understand the factors and their powers on the review quality made by reviewers,an anonymous questionnaire survey was performed on 400 reviewers from four academic journals of four different medical universities by a sheet of self-designedquestionnaire validated by experts.The scores of designed 11 factors were compared with each other,and the results showed that the differences were statistically significant(P0.05).The author filtered the main factors influencing the review quality of reviewers for journals of medical universities by adopting mathematical methods,and provided empirical evidence for editors to find ways of avoiding these factors,which showed significant importance in improving the overall quality of academic journals of medical universities.