Can we be assured of quality scholarship in a peer review‐less environment?

The purpose of this short paper is to focus on peer review in academic publishing.

The paper analyses the present situation with regard to an increasing lack of control.

The quality control aspect of peer review remains its greatest benefit to the scholarly community, but this gate‐keeping function is under threat, in various ways, from the internet.

The paper highlights how the loss of quality control that results from a peer review‐less environment should be of concern to the research community.