COVID-19 has highlighted the inefficiencies that exist in clinical research, as well as the frailties of the current publishing system. This blog examines two prominent examples from the pandemic.
Concerns are being raised whether the medical field can play by the same rules as the other sciences when it comes to preprints. Yunus Gokkir discusses benefits and risks of preprints in this blog.
This blog, written by Leonard Goh, was the winner of Cochrane Malaysia and Penang Medical College’s recent evidence-based medicine blog writing competition. Leonard has written an insightful and informative piece to answer the question: ‘Evidence-based health practice: a fairytale or reality’.
This blog discusses problems with peer review in research, and explores possible ways in which the modern peer review process could be improved.
Sense About Science brings free workshops focussing on peer review to early-careers researchers in the UK – Heidi reviews this year’s Glasgow workshop.
Would you like to do peer reviews on biomedical literature? Here is a free online course by the Cochrane Eyes & Vision Group.
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