peer review
evaluation of a person's work or performance by a group of people in the same occupation, profession, or industry.
Origin of peer review
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How to use peer review in a sentence
The research, which has yet to go through peer review, uses several lines of evidence to reconstruct when the virus first arrived in the city, how quickly it spread, and where it ended up over the following months.
Can Louisiana’s COVID surge trace back to one Mardi Gras reveler? | Philip Kiefer | February 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHer research, which repurposes tissue from primates used in vaccine tests, is undergoing peer review.
So you have to do peer review not sequentially … but in parallel.
The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic | Jordana Cepelewicz | January 28, 2021 | Quanta MagazineThe study released Monday, before peer review, suggests the Moderna vaccine will probably protect against variants first detected in Britain and South Africa.
New coronavirus variants accelerate race to make sure vaccines keep up | Carolyn Y. Johnson, Laurie McGinley, Joel Achenbach | January 26, 2021 | Washington PostThe study was released ahead of publication and peer review.
Pfizer BioNTech vaccine may be effective against fast-spreading COVID-19 variants, study says | Katherine Dunn | January 8, 2021 | Fortune
Notice how he says it is Gore who rejects “openness” and “peer review.”
If You Think D.C. Is Awful Now, Wait Until Wednesday | Jonathan Alter | November 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow Gore stands alone in his dismissal of reform, openness, transparency and peer-review to ensure good science.
If You Think D.C. Is Awful Now, Wait Until Wednesday | Jonathan Alter | November 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFinally, all reputable journals undergo peer-review of all submitted papers before final publication.
peer review acts as something of a check on this, of course.
How Social Scientists, and the Rest of Us, Got Seduced By a Good Story | Megan McArdle | April 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNo one ever writes a review of a book and puts it up for peer review.
Hanging Out with Ian McEwan: Full Transcript | The Daily Beast Video | April 14, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for peer review
the evaluation by fellow specialists of research that someone has done in order to assess its suitability for publication or further development
Derived forms of peer review
- peer-reviewed, adjective
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