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The time taken to reach an initial decision and final decision did not get longer for journals once transparent peer review was introduced, as both the journals operating transparent peer review and the control journals were faster.
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Do more reviewers need to be invited?
On average, 6 reviewers had to be invited to enable a manuscript to be peer reviewed pre the introduction of TPR, this rose to 7 reviewers when a journal adopted TPR. What about the control group?
Do reviewers complete review? This increased for TPR - i.e. more did not complete?
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