Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): The quality of research publications in peer reviewed journals is generally better than those in the journals where the process of peer review is absent.
Reason (R): The chances of obvious errors or other problems getting detected or corrected before publication in peer reviewed journals are same as in other journals where peer review is not followed.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
2
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A).
3
(A) is correct but (R) is not correct.
4
(A) is not correct but (R) is correct.