peer review
noun
: a process by which something proposed (as for research or publication) is evaluated by a group of experts in the appropriate field
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These projects had already passed rigorous expert peer review.
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Madison Plunkert, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2025
Opening up the peer review process is growing more common among scientific journals, but Nature is one of the largest and most influential journals to adopt the practice.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 16 June 2025
New studies are skeptical The findings, uploaded May 21 to the preprint server arXiv and is undergoing peer review after it was submitted to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 June 2025
Formal reporting—whether to a hospital peer review committee, a licensing board, or an oversight body—is vanishingly rare.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Madison Plunkert, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2025
Opening up the peer review process is growing more common among scientific journals, but Nature is one of the largest and most influential journals to adopt the practice.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 16 June 2025
New studies are skeptical The findings, uploaded May 21 to the preprint server arXiv and is undergoing peer review after it was submitted to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 June 2025
Formal reporting—whether to a hospital peer review committee, a licensing board, or an oversight body—is vanishingly rare.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for peer review
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“Peer review.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peer%20review. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.
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