Abstract
Dear Editor, I read with interest the article by Araujo1, which approaches the theme of peer review, providing instructions for the careful assessment of scientific papers. Although the discussion about peer review is not recent, the theme has been given little attention in Brazil. In a search on the PubMed database regarding publications of the last couple of years, the term “peer review” appeared 1176 times, but that number dropped to ten when the search was limited to publications in Portuguese2. In a recent study, van Rooyen et al.3 have emphasized that having the reviewer’s name made available on the website alongside the published paper might influence the result of the review. Those authors have reported that, when revealing to reviewers that their names would be disclosed alongside the published paper, more than half of the potential reviewers declined the task. In addition, among those who accepted the invitation, the time taken to complete the review was longer than among reviewers not informed about the possibility of having their names disclosed. Thus, an intrinsic bias in the review process has been shown.
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