Are guidelines for peer‐reviewing economic evaluations necessary? A survey of current editorial practice
调查150位医学期刊编辑发现，仅23%有经济研究评审政策，36%有经济学家审稿人，且无任何期刊有评审标准或指南，导致国际经济学文献质量参差不齐。
We report the results of a postal survey of 150 editors of medical journals aimed at assessing editorial policy on peer-review of economic studies. 70 editors (47%) responded to the anonymous questionnaire which contained six questions. 16 (23% or respondents) claimed to have an editorial policy, most claiming acceptance of 'good evaluations'. Few (36%) had trained economists as referees and none had criteria or guidelines for peer-reviewing economic studies. This situation helps to explain the variable quality of international economic literature. There is an urgent need to produce internationally accepted sets of guidelines for authors, editors and peer-reviewers.