Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 03-Apr-2026 02:16:45 JST Nathan Schneider

   Academics: what is your annual quota for peer reviewing papers, and what proportion of invitations do you reject?

   I honestly have no idea what is normal or expected.

   • Embed this notice
     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 03-Apr-2026 07:13:46 JST Nathan Schneider

     in reply to

     • Federico Pianzola

     @fpianz thanks! What about paywalled journals?

   • Embed this notice
     Federico Pianzola (fpianz@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Apr-2026 07:13:47 JST Federico Pianzola

     in reply to

     @ntnsndr I do around 10 journal articles and 10 conference submissions per year.
     I reject all requests from publishers that charge APCs (around 15 per year).
     #openaccess

   • Embed this notice
     Caitlin Waddick (caitlinwaddick@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 06:46:43 JST Caitlin Waddick

     in reply to

     @ntnsndr The accompanying question might be … When you review an article:
     How much time do you spend with your review? … It is very time consuming to analyze (and overanalyze?), document, and explain proposed changes. I have heard from top brass that it takes an entire weekend every time. … And, as a sane person, I left academia for this reason.

   • Embed this notice
     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 04-Apr-2026 11:01:48 JST Nathan Schneider

     in reply to

     Phew, really depends. Usually it takes a couple hours of an evening for me, and then I try to check my biases the next morning.