Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

The essay lists it among the institutions that emerged after printing to solve for credibility, and says it "established the template: claims vetted by experts before publication".

The journal's date is right and its significance is not in doubt. The peer review attribution is what Moxham and Fyfe were written to correct: refereeing developed over the following century and a half, and the term itself dates only to the 1970s.