The Open Fox (a nod to The Mole) is not my real name. To write with honesty I must stay in the shadows, having caused the good-kind of trouble for too many years.
So far we have dived into the historical origins of the peer review concept and the earliest attempts at an external referee system used by the Royal Society. Even in this early exploration,
Peer review is a staple of science, a seemingly inescapable barrier that every researcher must cross in order to share their work with the world. The internet is awash with complaints about Reviewer