Communicable episode 37: ‘Peer review is broken’

Contrary to popular belief, peer review has only recently been an integral step in scientific publishing. Currently seen by many as a badge of honour, ensuring that published research is valid, innovative, and honest, peer review seems in reality to be increasingly thankless, exploitative, and sometimes invisible. How did we get here? In this episode of Communicable, Annie Joseph and Angela Huttner are joined by two experts, Melinda Baldwin and Serge Horbach, to unpack and examine the role of peer review, why it is still essential, and how it fits within the greater editorial process.