The following types of contribution to Nature Portfolio journals are peer-reviewed: Articles, Letters, Brief Communications, Matters Arising, Technical Reports, Analysis, Resources, Reviews, ...

Institutional peer review of radiation therapy resulted in changes to treatment plans in over a quarter of cancer cases, according to a meta-analysis that identified target volume delineation and ...

Generally, it has a negative connotation since it is commonly associated with an investigation initiated by the occurrence of an adverse event. While many times this may be the case, proactive ...

Opinion pieces from C&EN staff addressing core issues in chemistry. For 300 years or so after the creation of the scientific journals, those journals would unsystematically decide what to publish on ...

As scientific and medical advancements have accelerated, so has the complexity of medical decision-making, exposing a need for standardization in the United States. In 1952, the Joint Commission ...

Does keeping authors’ identities secret during peer review make the process more fair? A new large-scale field study, led by Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Professor Tim Pleskac in ...

Some scholarly publishers are embracing artificial intelligence tools to help improve the quality and pace of peer-reviewed research in an effort to alleviate the longstanding peer review crisis ...

While the headaches and life-altering results of insurance pre-authorizations are not new to physicians or patients, lately things have been getting worse. Patients are sending more and more messages ...

In July, the National Institutes of Health released a request for information seeking public input on a proposed policy to limit allowable publication costs — the portion of grant funds researchers ...

A new network of nine primaries in the borough has been launched where senior leaders review each other’s schools and share best practice, being brought together as part of a partnership between The ...