An Editor’s Thanks for Reviewer Excellence

摘要: The concept of peer review of manuscripts goes back to the founding of the first technical journal, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in London in 1665. This journal published papers shared at meetings and served as a permanent record of those contributions to knowledge. Peer review in those days was essentially the acceptance of a person’s credentials for election to the Society. Since that time, and especially during the past 50 to 75 years, peer review has evolved into the process of double-anonymous vetting of manuscripts by expert reviewers that we take for granted today for the vast majority of technical and professional journals.In our own time, our own discipline, and our own journal, we rely on rigorous peer review to ensure that only the highest quality content in the field of professional communication appears in these pages. This process of peer review relies on the knowledge and the …