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Study Finds No Publishing Bias Against Novel Research

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers analyzed peer-reviewed data from nearly 50 journals in the physical and life science fields and found that evaluators didn’t show any noticeable bias against novelty, as has long been the fear. The researchers focused their attention on later-stage selection, as this is when projects are typically complete.

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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business Review

Innovating for Value in Health Care. One service, called UpToDate , employs 6,300 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers to manually review the most recent medical information to produce synopses for practicing doctors. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. We have already begun to go down this road.