Digital Collections: Alan Turing and DNA Papers Among Historical Peer Review Reports Made Public For First Time by The Royal Society, Over 1600 Reports Posted Today
From The Royal Society:
The Royal Society has today released over 1,600 historical peer review reports, available to view publicly for the first time on the Science in the Making portal.
Readers can discover what eminent scientists thought of work by mathematician Alan Turing, as well as Nobel Prize-winning chemist, Dorothy Hodgkin’s review of Crick and Watson’s famous “DNA” paper.
The reports, dating from 1949 and 1954, have until now been closed to researchers following a 70-year moratorium in respect of confidentiality and privacy laws. They have been added to a unique archive of referee reports dating back to 1831, allowing researchers to retrace the history of scientific peer-reviewing.
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Readers can also find Hodgkin’s referee report of Rosalind Franklin’s paper on ‘Crystallite growth in graphitising and non-graphitising carbons’, where she notes how she feels “incompetent” to review the paper, not being an expert in the field.
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