Sažetak
Academic publishing is central to knowledge development. In words of Richard Feynman (1969: 320), ‘[e]ach generation that discovers something from its experience must pass that on, but it must pass that on with a delicate balance of respect and disrespect, so that the [human] race does not inflict its errors too rigidly on its youth, but it does pass on the accumulated wisdom, plus the wisdom that it may not be wisdom’. Since 1665, when Henry Oldenburg founded the first modern scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, this delicate balance is achieved through various peer review practices. Despite their long history, today’s peer review practices are often opaque. According to Jackson et al. (2018: 95–96), peer review ‘has become one of the most mysterious and contentious academic practices, causing anguish for many academics—both reviewers, and those whose work is reviewed—and sometimes more distress than is necessary’.