peer review
Speech parts
1. peer review - Noun
2. peer review - Verb
Meaning
evaluate professionally a colleague's work
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The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.
AL GORE: Not on the basics of global warming science, no. Science magazine did a review of every peer review article for the previous ten years, a large sample of more than 10 percent. None of them disagreed with this consensus.
Peer review does not certify correctness of the results, only that, in the opinion of the reviewer, the experiments themselves were sound (based on the description supplied by the experimenter).
Peer review can be categorized by the type of activity and by the field or profession in which the activity occurs, e.g., medical peer review.
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).
Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards of quality, improve performance, and provide credibility.