Wouldn't it be awesome if those reviews could be used by another journal? Peer review, after all, is a limited but critical resource in academic medicine. Why should these reviews go to waste? And getting good peer review takes time! 2/x

That's why I'm delighted to announce that @CIDJournal -- and soon *all* the @IDSA journals -- will accept outside reviews from other high-impact journals. Some details in screen captures below. 3/x

Note that at times we'll still seek additional review -- but importantly sometimes we'll be able to go ahead and accept the now revised paper, saving a ton of time! Excited about this change, something I hope other journals adopt soon. And happy to take any questions. 4/4.

@PaulSaxMD Of course. I immediately wondered how justifiable it was to waste the peer reviewers donated time on the pretense of “peer reviewed” just so the editors could do what they want. Same goes for the opposite, when the peer reviewers scream “foul” and the article gets published…

@PaulSaxMD Good step. We absolutely can build a better system based on transparency.

@PaulSaxMD Yup. Political veto by editorial board lol

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@PaulSaxMD Me too. The three reviewers gave a positive opinion with minor changes, and the editor rejected it saying he believed it was not the appropriate journal (despite having sent it to reviewers)…

@PaulSaxMD Great idea

@PaulSaxMD That’s terrific. Well done. Thank you.

@PaulSaxMD As an editor, sometimes the comments to the editor are more explicitly negative than the comments to the authors and that’s why the paper is rejected. Not an ideal situation when it happens.

@PaulSaxMD Awesome!

@PaulSaxMD Good journals give importance to quality and utility- oriented research! A research study must have a reasonable background, scientifically acceptable methodology, logical application of statistics, justified presentation of results and application based discussion!

@PaulSaxMD Lol

@PaulSaxMD Wonder about definition of "high-quality, high-impact factor journal" that has reviewed the rejected paper. Hopefully the reviews are high quality as well! A good idea though. @EIDjournal does this also but we haven't publicized the practice.