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  • Annals of Emergency Medicine

What Does It Take to Change an Editor's Mind? Identifying Minimally Important Difference Thresholds for Peer Reviewer Rating Scores of Scientific Articles

By: Michael Callaham and Leslie John
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Abstract

Study objective—We define a minimally important difference for the Likert-type scores frequently used in scientific peer review (similar to existing minimally important differences for scores in clinical medicine). To our knowledge, the magnitude of score change required to change editorial decisions has not been studied.

Keywords

Information Publishing; Journals and Magazines; Science; Decision Making

Citation

Callaham, Michael, and Leslie John. "What Does It Take to Change an Editor's Mind? Identifying Minimally Important Difference Thresholds for Peer Reviewer Rating Scores of Scientific Articles." Annals of Emergency Medicine 72, no. 3 (September 2018): 314–318.e2.

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Leslie K. John

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