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Peer Review

"Peer Review" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An organized procedure carried out by a select committee of professionals in evaluating the performance of other professionals in meeting the standards of their specialty. Review by peers is used by editors in the evaluation of articles and other papers submitted for publication. Peer review is used also in the evaluation of grant applications. It is applied also in evaluating the quality of health care provided to patients.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Peer Review" by people in this website by year, and whether "Peer Review" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2011 and 2016 and 2017 and 2020 and 2021 and 2023
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