Peer review—the process by which academics evaluate new manuscripts involving new research—has long been a cornerstone of the academic publishing process. But are large commercial publishers exploiting the peer review process for their own financial gain?
That’s the claim made by a potential class of academics and researchers in an antitrust suit filed last week in Brooklyn against six major academic journal publishers: Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Sage Publications, Taylor & Francis, and Springer Nature.
