Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work. It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession withi
A reviewer at the American National Institutes of Health evaluating a grant proposal
Nature is a British weekly international scientific journal publishing peer-reviewed research across the natural sciences, including biology, physics, chemistry, the earth sciences, and related interd
Peer review
…philosopher who is seen as the 'father' of modern scientific peer review. It developed over the following centuries with, for example, the journal Nature making it standard practice in 1973. The term "peer review" was first used in the early 1970s. A monument to peer review has been at the Higher School…
Cover of a 2016 issue of Nature featuring artistic representation of Proxima Centauri and its planet Proxima Centauri b
First title page, 4 November 1869
Skewed curve of citations per article in 2015 to Nature articles from 2013 to 2014
Nature Materials, a specialized journal from Nature Portfolio, 2018