0 the process of someone reading, checking, and giving his or her opinion about something that has been written by another scientist or expert working in the same subject area, or a piece of work in which this is done:
1 to read, check, and give your opinion about something that has been written by another scientist or expert working in the same subject area as you:
The results had been peer-reviewed by five independent scientists in the same field.
They provided six scientists to peer-review my work.
2 a system in which people you work with report on your performance so that you and your managers know areas that you need to improve, or an occasion when this happen:
She identified qualified scientists to peer-review the research.
The manuscript is required about eight months ahead of publication to allow for the peer review process.
The professional community had already broadly invested in peer review, pharmaco-therapeutic consultations, education and training, consensus building, and guidelines.
That measurement of quality is heavily dependent on peer review mechanisms, and the burden of proof of peer review quality lies with the submitting university.
Results show that students incorporated a significantly higher number of reviewers' comments into revisions post peer review training.
Instead, the reports would go through an external peer review process.
