• DOI:10.1017/S0018246X17000334
Corpus ID: 164984479

THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE PREHISTORY OF PEER REVIEW, 1665–1965

@article{Moxham2017THERS,
  title={THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE PREHISTORY OF PEER REVIEW, 1665–1965},
  author={N. Moxham and Aileen Fyfe},
  journal={The Historical Journal},
  year={2017},
  volume={61},
  pages={863 - 889}
}

• N. Moxham, Aileen Fyfe
• Published 2017
• Political Science
• The Historical Journal

Abstract Despite being coined only in the early 1970s, ‘peer review’ has become a powerful rhetorical concept in modern academic discourse, tasked with ensuring the reliability and reputation of scholarly research. Its origins have commonly been dated to the foundation of the Philosophical Transactions in 1665, or to early learned societies more generally, with little consideration of the intervening historical development. It is clear from our analysis of the Royal Society's editorial… Expand

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