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If a journal asks me to do a peer-review for them, which I accept, then it makes a decision before the review deadline, without waiting for my review, and without letting me know that I do not need to do the review.. while I use my spare time to complete the peer-review by the deadline... then I am not going to do any more peer-review for that journal šŸ¤·

(#PLoSOne in this case šŸ«¤)
#AcademicChatter #PeerReview

#academicchatter #plosone #peerreview
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it's unfortunate they probably felt so much (financial) pressure to speed up their review times to match their competitors that they instituted a system where that can happen
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El Duvelle
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@alexh Maybe, but that shouldn't prevent them from warning their reviewers if they don't need to do a review anymore..
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@alexh scientific publishing needs a complete overhaul. there is no other industry where the distributor
1. Receives content for free
2. Filters content for free/pocket change (editors)
3. QCs content for free (reviewers)
4. Then asks money for free content to be published (publishing fee)
5. Then asks for more money for content they received for free to be freely accessible (open access fee).

It's a total scam.
link.springer.com/article/10.1ā€¦


A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchersā€™ time spent on peer review - Research Integrity and Peer Review

Background The amount and value of researchersā€™ peer review work is critical for academia and journal publishing.
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El Duvelle
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@acm_redfox that's unfortunately the 2nd time I hear about a journal doing that, the other one was #ScientificReports.. Well of course #MDPI journals also seem to do it all the time..
#scientificreports #mdpi @acm
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usually there's a whole infrastructure to prod reviewers to finish up -- are they only pretending to do peer review at all, or are they asking an excess of people and just moving ahead when they get some kind of quorum?? šŸ¤Ø
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