{"id":5583,"date":"2023-09-25T13:51:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T13:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/comic_strip\/the-evolution-of-peer-review-a-timeline\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T13:25:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:25:55","slug":"the-evolution-of-peer-review-a-timeline","status":"publish","type":"comic_strip","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/the-evolution-of-peer-review-a-timeline","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of peer review: A timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0cm 0cm 8pt\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"line-height:107%\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Scholarly journals instituting some kind of peer review date back to the 1600s, but peer review as we know it only appeared roughly in the 1950s. Since then, the peer-reviewed paper has been the \u201cgold standard\u201d of reliable research reporting. Over this time, peer review has changed\u2014and is changing\u2014to meet the demands of the times. 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