NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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Like the added color on peer review process…it’s bordering on exhausting here

The Peer Review Process is Exhaustive

JAMA's acceptance rate for articles is 10% of the more than 11,000 annual submissions and 4% of the more than 6,000 research papers received (like that for murcidencel). Selection of an article for publication indicates that JAMA believes that it is a significant medical advance. All research articles submitted to JAMA are first reviewed by an in-house team of expert editors. A high proportion of research papers, are rejected on the basis of in-house assessment alone. If editors wish to proceed with a paper, they then select appropriate independent peer reviewers. A research article is usually peer reviewed by three or more clinical or subject-based experts and one or more statistical reviewers. The peer review process works to improve submitted articles while preventing any overstating of results from reaching physicians and the public.

Peer reviewers make suggestions for improvements, critique the analysis, and provide recommendations to the authors and the editors. Each published JAMA manuscript, then, benefits from hundreds of hours of work by editors, independent physician experts, statistical experts, manuscript editors, illustrators, proofreaders, and production personnel, who work to ensure that every paper meets exacting standards. It is an intensive interaction between the reviewers and the Company. The collective aim is to present the information in the most balanced and informative way. NWBO management has remarked that the peer review process was intense and beneficial in making the article the best that it could be.