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JAMA, The Lancet, and other reputable medical journals peer-review studies, meaning experts evaluate the research before publication.
Journals should be judged by “the quality of peer-review that they conduct, the quality of the manuscript editing that they do, and [their] fact-checking with respect to numbers,” JAMA editor-in-chief Howard Bauchner told Business Insider.
The Journal of the American Medical Association accepts just 4% of the papers it receives.
The average time for a JAMA article to go from submission to acceptance is 30 days, with another 25 days to online publication.
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Published studies are the backbone of medical understanding, both for healthcare professionals and the general public. And medical journals are the gatekeepers of that research, ensuring accuracy and integrity.
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