Sir Godfrey Kneller’s 1689 portrait of Sir Isaac Newton
Some things to try to avoid when launching a new academic or scientific journal:
Of course, as I’ve tried to point out on numerous occasions, the most fundamental question isn’t about who reviewed an article or who edited the journal in which it appeared, but whether its evidence is solid and its analysis solid.
Neither Plato, nor Herodotus, nor Aristotle, nor Thucydides, nor Euclid, nor Tacitus, nor Eusebius, nor Aquinas, nor Descartes, nor Pascal, nor Newton, nor Kepler, nor Copernicus, nor Kant, nor Gibbon, nor Darwin was ever peer reviewed in any sense of the modern term. Nor, for that matter, were Einstein’s seminal papers on relativity or on the photoelectric effect.
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