Scholarly peer review
PROCESS OF SUBJECTING AN AUTHOR'S SCHOLARLY WORK, OR RESEARCH TO THE SCRUTINY OF OTHERS WHO ARE EXPERTS IN THE SAME FIELD
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Scholarly peer review or academic peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of having a draft version of a researcher's methods and findings reviewed (usually anonymously) by experts (or "peers") in the same field. Peer review helps the academic publisher (that is, the editor-in-chief, the editorial board or the program committee) decide whether the work should be accepted, considered acceptable with revisions, or rejected for official publication in an academic journal, a monograph or in the proceedings of an academic conference.