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See for example https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2016.131 https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2016.131

• tptacek 8y ago
  From that article: Editors normally invite more than one reviewer to evaluate a scientific manuscript.
  • kgwgk 8y ago
    As I said, it may be one of the members of the editorial board that acts as editor, sends the paper to the peer reviewers (only one in the case of the NYJM) and decides to accept or reject the paper (or ask for revisions) based on their report. Even if there were two referees instead of one, they are usually external and not members of the editorial board. And you could still believe that no peer review was done or suspect that both referees were the handling editor himself. Apparently in this case the final decision is taken by the editor-in-chief. Other academic journals may have other policies and maybe in some cases the whole editorial board is involved in every publication but I don’t think it’s usual.