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The post suggests why review quality suffers. Because of the system, there is too much reviewing going on. People get tired and produce worse reviews. Those rec
by matusp 1y ago
The post suggests why review quality suffers. Because of the system, there is too much reviewing going on. People get tired and produce worse reviews. Those receiving these low-quality reviews become less motivated, and in turn put less effort into reviewing as well. Bad reviewing makes the system less predictable, so you have to spray and pray with as many papers as possible if you want to keep up with publication expectations. This adds even more papers into the system, making it worse.
There are just too many negative eventualities reinforcing each other in different ways.