Is the trust in peer review broken? A holistic look from the author's, reviewer's and editor's perspectives

Trust is the underlying factor for the key stakeholders in the publishing cycle—researchers, journal editors, and peer reviewers. As we will see, trust is at play at various touchpoints of interactions among editors, researchers, and reviewers. Therefore, this is also where there is a potential for trust to be compromised. In this article, we look at all three perspectives and deep dive into the factors that bring the reliability of peer review in question.