Einstein was never published in a peer reviewed journal. Annalen der Physik had editorial review. The only time one of his articles was sent out for peer review

Einstein was never published in a peer reviewed journal. Annalen der Physik had editorial review. The only time one of his articles was sent out for peer review he withdrew it from the journal in question. > For instance, the Annalen der Physik, in which Einstein published his four famous papers in 1905, did not subject those papers to the same review process. The journal had a remarkably high acceptance rate (of about 90-95%). The identifiable editors were making the final decisions about what to publish. It is the storied editor Max Planck who described his editorial philosophy as: > To shun much more the reproach of having suppressed strange opinions than that of having been too gentle in evaluating them. ... > We (Mr. Rosen and I) had sent you our manuscript for publication and had not authorised you to show it to specialists before it is printed. I see no reason to address the – in any case erroneous – comments of your anonymous expert. On the basis of this incident I prefer to publish the paper elsewhere. —- Einstein https://theconversation.com/hate-the-peer-review-process-einstein-did-too-27405 https://theconversation.com/hate-the-peer-review-process-ein...