Credit: Getty/Shutterstock Do you ever feel that agreeing to review an academic paper guarantees a wasted workday? You’re not alone. Many researchers spend hours marking up a manuscript, only to realize that they need even more time to let everything sink in before they can write coherent feedback. Not surprisingly, they’ve started turning down review invitations — it’s the only way they can safeguard their time and energy. But science is a community endeavour, and we all know that many editors struggle to find qualified reviewers who can deliver quality feedback to tight deadlines. We also know that when the most knowledgeable people keep declining editors’ requests, science suffers. To find out more, I conducted an informal poll over social media. In posts on Facebook and LinkedIn in January, […]
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