Off to a Patchy Start: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 1 (1945–1989) - Absolutely Maybe
peter.suber's bookmarks 2022-06-11
Summary:
"Peer review didn’t start to become common at journals until the 1940s [PDF]. The influential medical journal editor, Franz J. Ingelfinger, pointed out in 1974 that the American Journal of Medicine didn’t use peer review in the ’40s and ’50s – and neither did The Lancet from the ’60s to the time he was writing..."