The most important tasks for peer reviewers evaluating a randomized controlled trial are not congruent with the tasks most often requested by journal editors

Peer review for biomedical publications: we can improve the system

(2014) Philip F Stahel et al.   BMC Medicine

Impact of peer review on reports of randomised trials published in open peer review journals: retrospective before and after study

(2014) S. Hopewell et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Who's Afraid of Peer Review?

(2013) John Bohannon   SCIENCE

Are Peer Reviewers Encouraged to Use Reporting Guidelines? A Survey of 116 Health Research Journals

(2012) Allison Hirst et al.   PLoS One

Assessment of adherence to the CONSORT statement for quality of reports on randomized controlled trial abstracts from four high-impact general medical journals

(2012) Saurav Ghimire et al.   Trials

The Validity of Peer Review in a General Medicine Journal

(2011) Jeffrey L. Jackson et al.   PLoS One

Reporting and Interpretation of Randomized Controlled Trials With Statistically Nonsignificant Results for Primary Outcomes

(2010) Isabelle Boutron   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Editorial Peer Reviewers' Recommendations at a General Medical Journal: Are They Reliable and Do Editors Care?

(2010) Richard L. Kravitz et al.   PLoS One

Spine journals: is reviewer agreement on publication recommendations greater than would be expected by chance?

(2010) Bradley K. Weiner et al.   Spine Journal

Comparison of Registered and Published Primary Outcomes in Randomized Controlled Trials

(2009) Sylvain Mathieu   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Obesity Increases Vascular Senescence and Susceptibility to Ischemic Injury Through Chronic Activation of Akt and mTOR

(2009) C.-Y. Wang et al.   Science Signaling

What errors do peer reviewers detect, and does training improve their ability to detect them?

(2008) Sara Schroter et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE

Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy

(2008) Erick H. Turner et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE