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Abstract. In this talk, I will take you on a journey through the history of scientific publishing with particular emphasis on the development of that set of pre-publication quality checks that is now known as peer-review. The term peer-review was coined only in the 1970s in the United States. What led to the creation of peer-review? What was there prior to that? The lecture will take you back to 1667, when the first scientific journal was established in England. We will see how various systems of refereeing evolved since then to serve learned societies, the increased specialization and professionalization of natural philosophers (later, scientists) and the growing number of commercial journals (including Nature, launched in 1869). I will end with a personal view on the current state of the peer-review system, as seen from within the Nature Portfolio.

 

https://ssc.unict.it/peer-review-through-history/