Editing Scientific journal (section)

== History ==
In the 17th century, scientists wrote letters to each other, and included scientific ideas with them.  Then, in the mid-17th century, scientists began to hold meetings and share their scientific ideas.  Eventually, they led to starting organizations, such as the [[Royal Society]] (1660) and the [[French Academy of Sciences]] (1666).<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Swoger |first=Bonnie |date=July 27, 2012 |title=The (mostly true) origins of the scientific journal |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/the-mostly-true-origins-of-the-scientific-journal/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727041115/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/the-mostly-true-origins-of-the-scientific-journal/ |archive-date=July 27, 2016 |access-date=January 25, 2023 |website=Scientific American}}</ref> In 1665, the French ''[[Journal des sçavans]]'' and the English ''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]]'' began systematically publishing research results. Over a thousand, mostly [[ephemeral]], were founded in the 18th century, and the number has increased rapidly since then.<ref name=":4">D. A. Kronick, ''History of Scientific and Technical Periodicals'', 2nd ed. Scarecrow, 1976</ref>

[[Peer review]] did not begin until the 1970s, and was seen as a way of enabling researchers who were not as well-known to have their papers published in journals that were more prestigious. Though it was originally done by mailing copies of papers to reviewers, it is now done online.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peer Review – A Historical Perspective : Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |url=https://mitcommlab.mit.edu/broad/commkit/peer-review-a-historical-perspective/ |access-date=2023-01-26 |website=mitcommlab.mit.edu |language=en-US}}</ref>