The peer-review system in research tries to be equitable by having panels of experts judge grant proposals and articles submitted to the medical journals.

(St. Luke's already has a peer-review system.)

For example one may question the objectivity of the peer-review system according to which academic research is accepted for publication in leading academic journals.

The present-day peer-review system evolved from this 18th-century process.

The NIH policy, in his presentation, "will destroy the commercial market" and leave science without a peer-review system.

As the peer-review system settles into a routine, many on the staff say the worst is over.

Recent disclosures of fraudulent or flawed studies in medical and scientific journals have called into question as never before the merits of their peer-review system.

This document harshly criticizes the current peer-review system using the words "censorship", "alleged expert referees", "blacklisting", and "bribes".

Nature said in a news release that the "results severely undermine the credibility of the peer-review system, not just in Sweden but elsewhere in the world."

The journal operates using a single-blind peer-review system.