Peer Review: The Gatekeepers of Knowledge

About the book

How does scientific knowledge become collectively credible? This book shifts focus to the institutional layer of science: peer review, transparency norms, and the systems that transform individual claims into shared knowledge. Its central thesis proposes that science functions as a governance system for managing uncertainty and credibility at scale.

The work traces peer review's evolution through open-science movements, artificial-intelligence applications, and changing incentive structures, grounded in frameworks like the TOP Guidelines and FAIR principles - connecting debate, critical thinking, and science's self-correcting mechanisms.