Nepal, Sept. 8 -- As I have written in a long memoir essay published about two months ago, when four academics, including me, founded the journal Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS) in 1995, all four of us had very little experience of formal peer review. By this, I mean we had limited first-hand knowledge of both receiving peer review comments written by others about our own formal submissions to journals and doing peer reviews of articles submitted by others to various journals. By the summer of 1995, two of us in the founding team had published only three full-length journal articles. One of the three articles, my piece published in 1994 in Contributions to Nepalese Studies, had not passed through rigorous peer review. Signi...