> But it would seem reasonable to me if there were adjacent experts. What do engineers or chemists want to see in physics? A natural experiment in this alread

> But it would seem reasonable to me if there were adjacent experts. What do engineers or chemists want to see in physics? A natural experiment in this already exists: there are interdisciplinary journals and conferences with heterogeneous editorial boards. From the outside looking in, I suspect mostly what happens is that either people stick to reviewing the subset of papers from their own community or else do a poor job of reviewing papers from outside their own community. > But if nobody outside a field cares about a line of research, or trusts a line of research, then maybe that's a bad line of research. I'm skeptical; a lot of research is useless until it's groundbreaking, and the phase shift is rather late in the development.