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The reliability of peer review for manuscript and grant submissions: “It's like déjà vu all over again!”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Domenic V. Cicchetti
Domenic V. Cicchetti
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West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center and Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 401 - 403
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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