All things peer review: Takeaways from the Peer Review Congress and Peer Review Week

I recently revisited an insightful piece of writing that got me thinking.This article talks about how even though the peer review process underlies all of science, it is understudied and its defects are more prominent than its merits.This article also mentions how peer review is often famously compared with democracy-as "a system full of problems but the least bad we have". [1]This piece was published in 2006.Today, over 15 years later, peer review continues to occupy an important place in research, especially in grant funding and journal publishing.][5] While there are several published works that delve into the workings of the peer review process, its challenges, advantages, and demerits, two global events that have opened up unlimited conversations about peer review among the scholarly publishing community are the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication [6] and Peer Review Week. [7]If you are unfamiliar with these events, here's a quick primer.