Editors' leadership role impacts on quality of biomedical research journals

The factors allowing a journal to achieve high quality are not fully understood, but good editorial practices such as accurate and author-helpful peer review and in-house editing are thought to be important. Now, a new study provides quantitative evidence that another aspect of good editorial practice - editors' expectations that articles adhere to international standards for quality reporting - is strongly related to journal quality. The research is published July 2 in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.

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