It is time to start paying peer reviewers

As refereeing requests multiply, the demands on willing academics’ time are becoming unsustainable, says Adrian Furnham

Published on
October 26, 2021
Last updated
November 9, 2021
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Given that there are only 20-25 working days in a month, 30 if you include weekend. And given that you probably have papers of your own to write, classes to prepare and teach, students to supervise and committee work to do, is there really an amount of money that would convince you to review these 53 papers, that would take 2/3 of your time, even if you worked 7 days a week, especially as you are probably already paid enough for a fairly comfortable life. Even if you paid me €100 a paper, meaning an extra €5300 a month, that wouldn't matter, as my life does not contain 150 spare hours.

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