Peer reviewed by whom? (Score 1)

From personal experience in a different field I question the religion of "Peer Review". I worked for a small company that published a thoroughly researched, valid career interest assessment. Unfortunately, we could not get our research published in the "peer reviewed" journal that represented the field. Why? because the editor of the journal (a very well respected professor from a large university) hated, yes hated with a passion, the founder and developer of our assessment. It all stemmed from a disagreement they had in graduate school 30 years in the past. The editor accepted all research from another large company that he worked very closely with, but would not even accept for review our research, much less publish any of it. He once went so far as to verbally harass me at a trade show in front of other academics and potential customers because our product was not published in any "peer reviewed" journals. The point is when those with a certain opinion become the gate keepers to the journals you can pretty much guess what gets published and what doesn't.