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The history of the peer-review process
1School of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK GU2 7XH. r.spier@surrey.ac.uk
Trends in Biotechnology
|July 20, 2002
Abstract:
The peer-review process is a turf battle with the ultimate prize of the knowledge, science or doctrine being published. On the one side, we have the writers and originators of ideas, on the other, we have the editors and critics. But it was not always so.