TY - JOUR AU - Afzal, Saira PY - 2018/02/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Open Peer Reviews and Blind Peer Reviews: Merits and Demerits JF - Annals of King Edward Medical University JA - Annals KEMU VL - 23 IS - 4 SE - Editorial DO - 10.21649/akemu.v23i4.2186 UR - https://annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/2186 SP - 426-427 AB - <p>The peer review process is essentially the quality&nbsp;control mechanism. Scientific discoveries and&nbsp;advancements have far reaching implications especially&nbsp;in health and medical publications. The quality&nbsp;assurance mechanism in medical journals has to be&nbsp;stringent and flawless. The peer review systems are&nbsp;continuously being criticized, debated and updated.&nbsp;It may be open peer review or blind peer review, both&nbsp;have advantages and disadvantages. Open peer review&nbsp;is performed for scientific quality after publication. It&nbsp;is also known as transparent peer review and public&nbsp;peer review.</p> ER -