Definition
Plain language
Other researchers reading a paper before publication to check whether it holds up.
As stated in the literature
Pre-publication evaluation by domain experts; TRACES treats it as a slow, overloaded and demonstrably permeable verifier for scientific claims.
Why it matters: It is the main quality gate before publication, and every retracted paper in this study passed through it.
For example, a journal sends a submitted manuscript to two or three researchers in the same field, who read it and recommend acceptance, revision or rejection.
Heard on the show
“Validation is a six-month experiment, or it's peer review, which is slow, overloaded, and demonstrably permeable to fabricated work.”Episode 240 — Frontier Models Designed Follow-Ups To Fraudulent Papers 93% Of The Time