What is "Peer Review" ?
Peer review is a process that journal editors use to ensure that the articles they publish represent the best scholarship currently available. When an article is submitted to a peer reviewed journal, the editors send it out to other scholars in the same field (the author's peers) to get their opinion on the quality of the scholarship, its relevance to the field, its appropriateness for the journal, etc. Only articles that pass the review are published in the journal. (University of Texas Libraries)
"Research holding the torch of knowledge" (1896)
Olin Levi Warner
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