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Unpaid peer reviewing is certainly not incentive-free. For example, oftentimes one enjoys peer reviewing because the author cites some publications that are use
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
Unpaid peer reviewing is certainly not incentive-free. For example, oftentimes one enjoys peer reviewing because the author cites some publications that are useful or important, but which one wasn't previously aware of. Sometimes the author makes some observation tangential to his/her main argument which proves an inspiration or key to one's own research.
These sort of things may be more common in the humanities versus hard STEM, but in my own field peer review is not generally seen as drudgery or exploitation.
- foobarbecue 6y agoTo add to your list: getting to see the research before the rest of the community.
- michaelmior 6y agoAs someone who is in a STEM field (CS) I would say that all the reasons you mentioned apply to me personally. There are some conferences where being a reviewer can be very tedious due to the massive number of submissions (many of which are unfortunately fairly poor quality) but I haven't had this problem in my own subfield.