Pivotal moments in the history of academic refereeing have occurred at times when the public status of science was being renegotiated, explains Alex Csiszar.
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Csiszar, A. Peer review: Troubled from the start. Nature 532, 306–308 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/532306a
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