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Peer review: Trial by Twitter

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Blogs and tweets are ripping papers apart within days of publication, leaving researchers unsure how to react.

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Mandavilli, A. Peer review: Trial by Twitter. Nature 469, 286–287 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469286a

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