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Recently published in the BMJ this paper by Cobo et al. investigates the effect of using reporting guidelines during peer review on the quality of final manuscripts submitted to the Medicina Clínica journal from May 2008 to April 2009.

Cobo E, Cortés J, Ribera JM, Cardellach F, Selva-O'Callaghan A, Kostov B, García L, Cirugeda L, Altman DG, González JA, Sànchez JA, Miras F, Urrutia A, Fonollosa V, Rey-Joly C, Vilardell M. Effect of using reporting guidelines during peer review on quality of final manuscripts submitted to a biomedical journal: masked randomised trial. BMJ. 2011 Nov 22; 343. PMID: 22108262

Free access to the full text of this paper is available from the BMJ

Emma Veitch, Senior Editor of PLoS Medicine, has also posted a blog comment about this paper.