Remco Heesen and Liam Kofi Bright admit that the abolition of this process may lead to a “runaway Matthew effect” in a 2021 article titled “Is [this process] a good idea?” John Bohannon wrote a Mad Libs-style Python script to exploit this process in a 2013 exposé titled “Who’s Afraid of [this process]?” In October 2022, mass resignations occurred in response to Michael B. Eisen et al.’s announcement of efforts to weaken and publicize this process at (*) eLife. An initial application of this process immediately precedes the second stage in registered reports, which split this process into two parts in order to solve the file-drawer problem. An “open pre-publication” form of this process is facilitated by the arXiv (“archive”) and other preprint servers. For 10 points, a “desk rejection” may occur directly before what process by which researchers verify each other’s work prior to publication? ■END■
ANSWER: scholarly peer review [prompt on review or editing; prompt on word forms of publishing by asking “what step of the publication process?”]
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