Peer review: Troubled from the start

2016/04/19 by Alex Csiszar · 5 citations
Medicine · Decision Sciences · #Health and Medical Research Impacts #scientometrics and bibliometrics research #Science, Research, and Medicine #Peer review #Political science #Law

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/532306a

openalex publication_date 2016/04/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated, explains Alex Csiszar.

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