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Peer Review.  

• In Editorial Assessment and Processing
• Editorial Assessment.

Phil Fontanarosa, Stacy Christiansen, and Annette Flanagin

in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11th edn)

Peer review was first used for biomedical publications by the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh in the 18th century but evolved haphazardly, was not used consistently until after World War II,1 , 2 and has only come under scientific scrutiny since the 1980s.3...