peer review
noun
: a process by which something proposed (as for research or publication) is evaluated by a group of experts in the appropriate field
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While the objects are considered mere exoplanet candidates until additional evidence allows them to be officially confirmed as such, the discovery published in a study on research repository ArXiv and awaiting peer review – is major leap forward in planet-hunting techniques.
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Advisory councils, which provide a second layer of peer review, have been hollowed out.
—Anil Oza, STAT, 30 Apr. 2026
The measures the compromise built – peer review, the National Science Board, reports on scientific progress – allowed political and scientific judgment to inform each other without collapsing into one another.
—Caroline Wagner, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
After submitting the paper to peer review ahead of its publication in Nature, Sony researchers kept experimenting and said Ace accelerated its shot speeds and rallies and played even more aggressively and closer to the table edge.
—Matt O’Brien, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 12 May 2026
Advisory councils, which provide a second layer of peer review, have been hollowed out.
—Anil Oza, STAT, 30 Apr. 2026
The measures the compromise built – peer review, the National Science Board, reports on scientific progress – allowed political and scientific judgment to inform each other without collapsing into one another.
—Caroline Wagner, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
After submitting the paper to peer review ahead of its publication in Nature, Sony researchers kept experimenting and said Ace accelerated its shot speeds and rallies and played even more aggressively and closer to the table edge.
—Matt O’Brien, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Peer review.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peer%20review. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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