{"id":5381,"date":"2018-09-16T10:02:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T10:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/comic_strip\/a-history-of-academic-peer-review\/"},"modified":"2018-09-16T10:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T10:02:56","slug":"a-history-of-academic-peer-review","status":"publish","type":"comic_strip","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/a-history-of-academic-peer-review","title":{"rendered":"A history of academic peer review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>This <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.frontiersin.org\/2016\/09\/15\/a-history-of-academic-peer-review\/\"><em>infographic<\/em><\/a><i>\u00a0was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\">Frontiers<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><i>and has been republished here with permission. <\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although peer review is a fundamental quality control measure implemented during the publishing process, the practice as we know it today is quite different from how it was envisioned almost two centuries ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"History of academic peer review\" class=\"responsive\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%226001%22,%22view_mode%22:%22default%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22default%22,%22field_file_image_alt_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22History%20of%20academic%20peer%20review%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22History%20of%20academic%20peer%20review%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Btextfield%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_image_tags%5Bund%5D%5Bvalue_field%5D%22:%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%5C%22%20%5C%22%5C%22peer%20review%5C%22%5C%22%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/insights.cactusglobal.com\/sites\/default\/files\/History%20of%20academic%20peer%20review.jpg\" style=\"\" title=\"History of academic peer review\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PDF version available\u00a0here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/frontiersinblog.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/peer_review_week_final_corrected.pdf\" title=\"peer_review_week_final_corrected\">A Succinct History of Academic Peer Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Csiszar, A. (2016)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/peer-review-troubled-from-the-start-1.19763\">Peer review: Troubled from the start.<\/a>\u00a0Nature 532:306-8\u00a0doi:10.1038\/532306a<\/p>\n<p>Spier, R. 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