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What do you mean "have to"? What happens if you don't?

• randomsearch 8y ago
  Turn of phrase here, fair point. I meant "if you want to review, then it will be additional time outside of doing your paid work." Second question is an interesting point: what happens if you don't review? I can tell you that it is certainly the case that a lot of academics don't do reviewing. Given the amount of reviewing I and my colleagues do, there must be others who are not doing their fair share (say 3 x your submission rate) of reviews. What are the consequences of not reviewing? Perhaps you can be seen as a freeloader, some social cost, but mostly people just won't know unless you're replying to them directly.