Handysides S, Goalen V, Soltanpoor N
PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London.
Commun Dis Public Health. 1998 Mar;1(1):51-3.
Openness about a journal's editorial process fosters confidence among its authors and readers. The time taken to accomplish steps in the Communicable Disease Report (CDR) Review's editorial process to be accomplished is described for papers published in 1997, and compared with similar data on papers published in 1995 and 1996. Over half of the papers published in 1997 had been submitted less than six months earlier. The introduction of blinded peer review was associated with an increase in quality of reviewers' reports. Communicable Disease and Public Health will follow the same procedures.
期刊编辑过程的透明度有助于增强作者和读者的信心。本文描述了1997年发表在《传染病报告》（CDR）评论中的论文完成编辑过程各步骤所需的时间，并与1995年和1996年发表论文的类似数据进行了比较。1997年发表的论文中，超过一半是在提交不到六个月前发表的。引入盲审同行评审与评审报告质量的提高相关。《传染病与公共卫生》将遵循相同的程序。
