A review of peer-reviewed research from the perspective of scienteometric

[ Purpose/Significance ] By combing related researches of peer review from the scientometrics perspective, this paper provides references for further in-depth research on peer review. [ Method/Process] This paper reviewed the current foreign and domestic status of research from three aspects; fairness, reliability, and validity of peer review on the basis of generalizing the quantitative characteristics of peer review. [ Result/Conclusion] The paper summarizes the trends in the diversity of research methods and the comprehensiveness of data application in peer review research from the scientometrics perspective, and points out that the interpretability of the current findings still needs to be improved, and the empirical research on peer review in China is still relatively insufficient.