Does anyone know of a peer review experiment where there is a genuine and meaningful attempt to actually improve the reliability/qualty of peer reviews?

I'm not looking for examples of process improvements only.

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Manuscrito #176:

Proponía la escritura de una novela basada en su tesis doctoral, titulada "Caracterización molecular, fisiológica y ecológica de comunidades microbianas extremófilas en ambientes hipersalinos: Implicaciones en la biorremediación de contaminantes y su potencial aplicación".

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