How does the peer review process influence AANA journal article readability?
This study examined the readability of the AANA Journal, quantifying the effect of peer review on case and research reports published from 1992 to 1994. Gunning and Flesch index-based computer analysis, as well as human comparative analysis, was undertaken. Computer and human assessment of readability revealed improvement as papers evolved from submitted to published versions; however, at publication the manuscripts remained in the “difficult” readability range. Although this study provides evidence that peer review improves readability, it may be that, due to a professed need for scientific purity and an imposed sense of scholarship, nursing and other biomedical journals may overemphasize a style and approach that paradoxically make transfer of information unreasonably difficult.
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