Answer:a. peer-review process
Explanation:Peer review refers to a process in which one scholarly work or research is given to other people in the same field or people who are experts in that person's field , before that work can be officially released or published in a journal. In science a group of scientists , a review is done on the work by all other scientists and then it can be published as an article , which is further submitted into a journal publisher and then journal editors will send it to other scientists in the same field.