peer review

Speech parts

1. peer review - Noun

2. peer review - Verb

Meaning

evaluate professionally a colleague's work

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Alternative names

peer-review

Synonyms

referee refereeing research study review survey examination expertise critical appraisal peer reviewed assessment panel counterfactual analysis critical discussion expert judgement expert examination

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Antonyms

irrational technique irrelevant idea bad approach irrelevant method irrelevant technique foolish technique

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Hypernyms

review critique

Examples

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. Hannes Alfvén

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. Al Gore

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). Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers). Source: Internet

Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards of quality, improve performance, and provide credibility. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

peer of the realm Peer Panja peer pressure peer reviewed peer risk peer-reviewable