Editorial peer review for electronic journals: Current issues and emergingmodels

This article reviews the evolution and growth of electronic journals, and d escribes the various emerging models of editorial peer review in an electro nic environment. There is some debate about whether the traditional model o f editorial peer review should be altered. Medicine, physics, and psycholog y are taking different approaches with editorial peer review in an electron ic environment. This article summarizes several studies of peer review in a n electronic environment. Studies to date have focused on attitudes toward electronic publications and citation patterns of electronic journals. Futur e trends and levels of acceptance of the new models are discussed.