Stephen Lock

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'''Stephen Penford Lock''' (born 8 April 1929) is an English haematologist and editor who served as [[editor-in-chief]] of ''[[the BMJ]]'' from 1975 to 1991.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> A prominent scholar of the [[peer review]] process, he coined the term "[[journalology]]" to refer to the scientific study of the academic publishing process.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In 1990, [[Eugene Garfield]] described him as "an elder statesman of biomedical editing".<ref name="CC">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>

Lock was educated at [[Queens' College, Cambridge]] and [[St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College]], where he was trained in [[haematology]]. He worked at [[St Bartholomew's Hospital]], the [[Great Ormond Street Hospital|Hospital for Sick Children]], and other hospitals before joining ''the BMJ''. He originally began working at ''the BMJ'' in 1964 as an assistant editor, and he was promoted to the positions of senior assistant editor and deputy editor before becoming editor-in-chief in 1975.<ref name="CC"/> In 1982, while editor of ''the BMJ'', he introduced its [[Christmas]] edition, which contained many humorous articles, as well as interesting historical stories about medicine. This lighthearted edition has since become an annual tradition.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> He also changed the journal's [[peer review]] system by introducing a "hanging committee", consisting of two clinicians and two of the journal's official editors; the committee was responsible for choosing papers to publish in ''the BMJ'' from a pool of submissions recommended from outside reviewers. He was a co-founder of the Vancouver Group (later the [[International Committee of Medical Journal Editors]]), as well as a former president of the [[European Association of Science Editors]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
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