
Gatekeeping of Peer Review
Who holds the keys? The process of peer review as a standard in science is relatively young - its modern form really only appearing in the late 20th century. Essentially, the purpose of peer review is to endow a scientific manuscript with the added values of scientific credibility and scientific integrity, conferred by a consensus of expert peers. It makes sense... right? The idiom "two heads are better than one" seems to suggest that communal decision making leads to better