peer review

See also: peer-review

English

Noun

peer review (countable and uncountable, plural peer reviews)

1. (education) The scholarly process whereby manuscripts intended to be published in an academic journal are reviewed by independent researchers (referees) to evaluate the contribution, i.e. the importance, novelty and accuracy of the manuscript's contents.
   • 2006, National Institute for Literacy, What is Scientifically Based Research?, page 2:

     Peer review [...] happens in two ways. In one method, a paper submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal is examined by other scientists in the field before an editor (usually an expert in the field) passes judgment on it. The second method is review by an independent panel of experts who, using rigorous criteria, determine whether the findings of the paper are credible.

   • 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     It isn’t easy to know what to make of these studies. Many undergo peer review, but an experiment can be structured in a way that favours a particular outcome and still be valid science.

Alternative forms

• peer-review (much less frequent)

Synonyms

• refereeing

Translations

scholarly process

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: avaluació d'experts f, revisió d'experts f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同儕審查／同侪审查 (zh) (tóngchái shěnchá), 同行評審／同行评审, 同行评议 (tóngháng píngshěn), 同行評議／同行评议 (tóngháng píngyì), 同行審查／同行审查 (tóngháng shěnchá)

• Danish: fagfællebedømmelse c
• Finnish: vertaisarviointi (fi)
• French: évaluation par les pairs (fr)
• German: Peer-Review, Kreuzgutachten n
• Hungarian: szakértői értékelés/bírálat, szakmai lektorálás
• Irish: athbhreithniú piaraí m, an próiseas athbhreithnithe piaraí m, piarmheasúnú m
• Italian: revisione paritaria f
• Japanese: 査読 (ja) (さどく, sadoku)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: arotake aropā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fagfellevurdering (no) m or f

• Polish: recenzowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: revisão por pares (pt) f
• Russian: рецензи́рование (ru) n (recenzírovanije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стручна рецензија f

  Roman: stručna recenzija f

• Spanish: revisión por pares f
• Swedish: referentgranskning c, expertgranskning c, kollegial granskning c, kollegial utvärdering c, fackgranskning c, refereegranskning c, sakkunnigbedömning c, sakkunniggranskning c
• Welsh: adolygiad gan gymheiriaid m

Verb

peer review (third-person singular simple present peer reviews, present participle peer reviewing, simple past and past participle peer reviewed)

1. To review before publication, as by an authority or authorities in the pertinent field of study, of the written form of an idea, hypothesis, theory, and/or written discussion of such.

   Three drafts of his report were peer-reviewed before it was accepted for publication.

Derived terms

• peer-reviewable

See also

• copy edit
• edit
• peer-reviewed
• proofread