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I've never heard that excuse. They don't spend time reviewing the research for most journals. At least in my field, the time and effort reviewing research is sp
by phalangion 10y ago
I've never heard that excuse. They don't spend time reviewing the research for most journals. At least in my field, the time and effort reviewing research is spent by faculty peers for free.
- jjawssd 10y agoWhy do faculty peers do this work for free when they could be doing more work to apply for more grants?
- Loic 10y agoThe editors of the journal are the ones selecting the reviewers. It is a small community, if you are a good reviewer, the chance that your own papers get accepted is getting up because of course, the editor will find the right reviewers for your papers... Source: I review papers (pretty irregularly) on Elsevier journals and my supervisor was/is editor of such journal.
- sndean 10y agoI sometimes wish researchers were organized enough to "strike" and stop reviewing papers for a period of time. Since the papers not being reviewed would include our own papers, that'll never work. Plus Prisoner's dilemma (or whatever theory I'm thinking of). Plus, they could be criticized for effectively "blocking cancer research" etc. But still, it'd be nice to see what would happen.