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scientists grading each other's homework, anonymously and with extreme prejudice.
means a process where experts scrutinize research before publication to catch errors, fraud, or plain bad ideas.
from formalized in the 1970s by journals like nature, though the royal society was quietly doing versions of it back in the 1660s.
reviewersusually unpaid, often anonymous, always overworked
reject ratetop journals reject over 90 percent
famous failureandrew wakefield's vaccine paper passed review anyway
average timemonths, sometimes over a year to publish