International peer-reviewed open access medical journalPublished biannually · Almaty, Kazakhstan
GMRGlobal Medical ReviewsEvidence synthesis for medicine and health
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Peer Review Model

Global Medical Reviews uses double-anonymized external peer review for scholarly articles. Reviewers assess both the main manuscript and relevant supplementary materials. Recommendations are advisory; the handling editor and, where required, the Editor-in-Chief make the final decision.

Double-anonymized external review

  • Authors do not receive reviewer identities.
  • Reviewers receive an anonymized manuscript without the title page or author metadata.
  • Reviewers do not see the identity or reports of other reviewers.
  • Editors know the identities of authors and reviewers to manage conflicts and accountability.
  • Reviewer reports are sent to authors without reviewer names and are not routinely published.
  • Reviews are not signed in correspondence with authors.

Number and independence of reviewers

Every scholarly manuscript accepted by GMR, including an invited Narrative Review, must first receive reports from at least two independent external reviewers. An additional reviewer may be invited when reports conflict, specialist statistical or information-retrieval expertise is required, or integrity concerns need further assessment.

Supplementary materials

Search strategies, protocols, reporting checklists, flow diagrams, extracted data, risk-of-bias tables, certainty profiles, appendices and analytic code are part of the review record and should be examined when relevant to the reviewer’s expertise.

Materials not normally sent for external review

Corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, publisher notices, editorial notices and administrative announcements may undergo editorial assessment rather than ordinary external review. The published item will identify its nature. Invited narrative reviews remain subject to external peer review.

Editorial decision

The recommendation of a reviewer does not constitute the final decision. The handling editor evaluates all reports, the manuscript and journal policies. The Editor-in-Chief may review difficult, disputed or integrity-related cases.