Recruitment of Reviewers Is Becoming Harder at Some Journals¶
Fox, C. W., Albert, A. Y. K., & Vines, T. H. (2017). Recruitment of Reviewers Is Becoming Harder at Some Journals: A Test of the Influence of Reviewer Fatigue at Six Journals in Ecology and Evolution. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 2.
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- Helpful-Inflow Displacement
- Academic publishing: low-quality submissions surging under publish-or-perish pressure, consuming reviewer and editor attention without changing acceptance quality — the reviewer crisis is coordination-cost displacement, not absolute submission count.
This sourceDocuments declining reviewer-acceptance rates under rising submission volume — the reviewer-attention coordination constraint in scholarly publishing.
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Shows reviewer-acceptance rates falling (56% to 37%, 2003-2015) despite rising review-invitation volume, and that reviewer fatigue is not the main cause, but says nothing about submission quality or acceptance quality.
“The proportion of invitations that lead to a submitted review has been decreasing steadily over 13 years (2003-2015) for four of the six journals examined, with a cumulative effect that has been quite substantial (average decline from 56% of review invitations generating a review in 2003 to just 37% in 2015). The likelihood that an invitee agrees to review declines significantly with the number of invitations they …”
- Academic publishing: low-quality submissions surging under publish-or-perish pressure, consuming reviewer and editor attention without changing acceptance quality — the reviewer crisis is coordination-cost displacement, not absolute submission count.
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