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The History of Refereeing at Scientific Journals and Funding Bodies
- forapurpose 8y agoThe link is to an interview with the author. The paper itself is behind a paywall: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/700070 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/700070 Does someone know where it can be found?
- CaliforniaKarl 8y agoSci-Hub probably has it. Try searching for the DOI (10.1086/700070).
- jhbadger 8y agoIt is quite interesting to read how recent the idea of peer review being required for publication is (1973 for Nature apparently). It's well known that in biology that the 1953 Watson & Crick paper in Nature was published without review after Nobel Laureate Sir William Lawrence Bragg (Watson & Crick's ultimate boss) vouched for it, but it seems that wasn't atypical at all for the era.
- sytelus 8y agoFun fact: Einstein's 1905 papers were published in Annalen der Physik without any peer review [1]. I think at that period, the number of incoming papers were small in numbers that editors can go through themselves and make decisions. The journal had 90-95% acceptance rate. However by 1936, journal Physics Review required peer reviews and Einstein faced the double blind review for the first time [2]. However he refused to subject himself to "anonymous" expert and went to publish the paper somewhere else. Although he did incorporated some of the reviewer's critic :). [1] http://theconversation.com/hate-the-peer-review-process-einstein-did-too-27405 http://theconversation.com/hate-the-peer-review-process-eins... [2] http://www.geology.cwu.edu/facstaff/lee/courses/g503/Einstein_review.pdf http://www.geology.cwu.edu/facstaff/lee/courses/g503/Einstei...