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October 15, 2025Open Access

Peer Review and the Diffusion of Ideas

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This analysis uncovers how peer review influences citations in scientific writing, suggesting idea diffusion impacts knowledge growth.

Exposure to core ideas in manuscripts significantly increases citations by reviewer invitees who decline to review.
Declining reviewers exposed to manuscript summaries exhibit greater breadth and diversity in their citations.
The analysis covers over half a million peer review invitations across thousands of submitting authors.
These findings highlight the unrecognized role of peer review as an engine for scientific idea diffusion.

Wang et al. (2025) studied this question.

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