Peer review: should we let the robots take over?
Many academics bemoan the often thankless task of peer-reviewing other scholars’ research manuscripts before they are published in journals.
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Many academics bemoan the often thankless task of peer-reviewing other scholars’ research manuscripts before they are published in journals.
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