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Published December 2023 | Published
Journal Article Open

Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer reviewer crisis

Tropini, Carolina ORCID icon
Finlay, B. Brett ORCID icon
Nichter, Mark ORCID icon
Melby, Melissa K. ORCID icon
Metcalf, Jessica L. ORCID icon
Dominguez-Bello, Maria Gloria ORCID icon
Zhao, Liping ORCID icon
McFall-Ngai, Margaret J. ORCID icon
Geva-Zatorsky, Naama ORCID icon
Amato, Katherine R. ORCID icon
Undurraga, Eduardo A. ORCID icon
Poinar, Hendrik N. ORCID icon
Gilbert, Jack A. ORCID icon

Abstract

There is concern that the time taken to publish academic papers in microbiological science has significantly increased in recent years. While the data do not specifically support this, evidence suggests that editors are having to invite more and more reviewers to identify those willing to perform peer review.

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© 2023 Tropini et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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