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A Bold Step Forward in Peer Review

I am on the editorial board of a fairly new peer-reviewed, scientific journal called the World Journal of Psychiatry. In what I see as a brilliant, and yet bound to be controversial move, the journal is going to begin publishing not only the completed, revised, accepted manuscript online but also both the peer reviewers’ comments on the initial paper and the authors’ letter addressing the reviewers’ concerns. An email I received yesterday from the publisher said that: