• DOI:10.1007/S11948-997-0017-3
Corpus ID: 7920654

Peer review for journals: Evidence on quality control, fairness, and innovation

@article{Armstrong1997PeerRF,
  title={Peer review for journals: Evidence on quality control, fairness, and innovation},
  author={J. Armstrong},
  journal={Science and Engineering Ethics},
  year={1997},
  volume={3},
  pages={63-84}
}

• J. Armstrong
• Published 1997
• Psychology, Medicine
• Science and Engineering Ethics

This paper reviews the published empirical evidence concerning journal peer review consisting of 68 papers, all but three published since 1975. Peer review improves quality, but its use to screen papers has met with limited success. Current procedures to assure quality and fairness seem to discourage scientific advancement, especially important innovations, because findings that conflict with current beliefs are often judged to have defects. Editors can use procedures to encourage the… Expand