The peer review process is the evaluation of a person’s research or work by other people of similar knowledge and fascination in a subject. It is important because other qualified members will review and evaluate the validity of the work based on their own experiences or compared to what is already known. The process can take a few months and editors will review the paper until they find faults or needed changes and send it back to the author until the author fixes it and sends it back. This process repeats until the article is passed by the reviewers and will be sent to a journal to be published. I think that this is a great system to ensure that each article is trustworthy. I think editors would be especially strict when it comes to new findings one because they would not want misinformation, but also to find faults due to possible jealousy that a colleague has discovered something revolutionary that they did not. I think that a lot of researchers want to make that revolutionary discovery and put their name first on an article so when someone else claims to have something super exciting they have to get to the bottom of it to prove its validity.
