Peer review is the checking of a study by other experts before it is published. Sent for peer review, survive peer review, peer review comments.
The reviewers are unpaid and usually anonymous, and the process is slow, imperfect and still the best filter science has. Passing peer review means a paper is worth arguing about rather than that it is right.
1nounpeer reviewThe checking of a study by other experts before it is published.
“Before the study was published, it went through peer review by three other scientists.”
peer review is a checking.
Practised in Science & Space, Academic English