Liu, Yue and Liu, Ying, The Illusion of Quality Control: How Peer Review Enables Mediocrity While Suppressing Innovation in Academic Publishing (September 03, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5436920 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5436920, Liu, Yue and Liu, Ying, The Illusion of Quality Control: How Peer Review Enables Mediocrity While Suppressing Innovation in Academic Publishing, Sep 03, 2025, yueliusd.substack.com

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