Einstein sent his papers to Planck, and Planck, as an editor of Annalen der Physik, decided to publish them in the journal. Here's what Einstein had to say abo

Einstein sent his papers to Planck, and Planck, as an editor of Annalen der Physik, decided to publish them in the journal. Here's what Einstein had to say about the modern peer-review process in which a draft is reviewed by anonymous referees: > We (Mr. Rosen and I) had sent you our manuscript for publication and had not authorized 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. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2117822 https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2117822 On the other hand, Einstein was really into what we might today call post-publication peer review. A significant chunk of Einstein's publications were reviews of other scientists' publications.