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An appeal is not a second opinion. It asks an editor to revisit a decision taken on a record that contains an error — and if there is no error, there...
Every published article carries a machine-readable record its author never sees. Here is how to pull yours from Crossref, read it field by field, and...
A decode table for the statistical comments clinicians receive on chart reviews and case series — plus how to decline an analysis in writing, and the...
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