Scholarly peer reviewScholarly peer review or academic peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of having a draft version of a researcher's methods and findings reviewed (usually anonymously) by experts (or "peers") in the same field. Peer review is widely used for helping the academic publisher (that is, the editor-in-chief, the editorial board or the program committee) decide whether the work should be accepted, considered acceptable with revisions, or rejected for official publication in an academic journal, a monograph or in the proceedings of an academic conference.
Academic writingAcademic writing or scholarly writing is nonfiction writing produced as part of academic work in accordance with the standards and disciplines of each academic subject, including: Reports on empirical fieldwork or research in facilities for the natural sciences or social sciences, Monographs in which scholars analyze culture, propose new theories, or Develop interpretations from archives, as well as undergraduate versions of all of these.
Academic publishingAcademic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or theses. The part of academic written output that is not formally published but merely printed up or posted on the Internet is often called "grey literature". Most scientific and scholarly journals, and many academic and scholarly books, though not all, are based on some form of peer review or editorial refereeing to qualify texts for publication.
Recherche scientifiquevignette|Une laborantine du Laboratoire fédéral d'essai des matériaux et de recherche (EMPA) à Saint-Gall, en 1964. La recherche scientifique est, en premier lieu, l’ensemble des actions entreprises en vue de produire et de développer les connaissances scientifiques. Par extension métonymique, on utilise également ce terme dans le cadre social, économique, institutionnel et juridique de ces actions. thumb|Allégorie de la Recherche, bronze par , 1896, Thomas Jefferson Building.
