What happens when more &more people decline to peer review? It means that often a te Jew is done by someone less expert or overworked efitors have to troll hopelessly through their Roladex (remember those?🤣) I contacted an editor when I hadn’t head back in 6 months. She had been turned down by a number of possible readers, lost heart, put my article on the do later pile and had stopped trying until I emailed. Then she really hit the bricks and got reviewers quite quickly. But they could have just said this article isn’t for us sorry. (Instead they fast tracked it and published it really quickly. I get the need to occasionally decline but overall I worry that this is the area of academic work that is easiest to say “no” but at what cost to peer-review being the gold standard?
Ack task. terrible mistyping and apologies for missing the obvious error
What happens when more &more people decline to peer review? It means that often a te Jew is done by someone less expert or overworked efitors have to troll hopelessly through their Roladex (remember those?🤣) I contacted an editor when I hadn’t head back in 6 months. She had been turned down by a number of possible readers, lost heart, put my article on the do later pile and had stopped trying until I emailed. Then she really hit the bricks and got reviewers quite quickly. But they could have just said this article isn’t for us sorry. (Instead they fast tracked it and published it really quickly. I get the need to occasionally decline but overall I worry that this is the area of academic work that is easiest to say “no” but at what cost to peer-review being the gold standard?