Scientific journals

Abstract

This article discusses the history of scientific journals and the development of their review systems. It emphasizes the importance of historical perspective in studying the subjects like “science” or “scientific journal” and reviews the history of scientific journals and the development of the review systems using relatively recent studies on the subjects. It ends by discussing some of the current challenges. In particular, it presents some of the findings in the recently published book on the Royal Society’s scientific publishing by Aileen Fyfe and others.