Abstract Peer-review is inefficient, biased, and often ineffective. However, its importance in maintaining research integrity, at a time when the public has less faith in science, is clear, since journals are the principal conduit for communicating the results of research to the scientific community and the public. Given the number of published manuscripts in the biomedical sciences now exceeds 3M per year it is no longer possible for human editorial and peer-review alone to ensure integrity. New approaches are needed, including the use of AI to assist in editorial and peer-review.
Bauchner et al. (2026) studied this question.