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Peer Review

"Peer Review" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

An organized procedure carried out by a select committee of professionals in evaluating the performance of other professionals in meeting the standards of their specialty. Review by peers is used by editors in the evaluation of articles and other papers submitted for publication. Peer review is used also in the evaluation of grant applications. It is applied also in evaluating the quality of health care provided to patients.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Peer Review" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Peer Review" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 122 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2022
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