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Title ProperReviewer fatigue? why scholars decline to review their peers’ work
LanguageENG
AuthorBreuning, Marijke ;  Widmeier, Michael ;  Backstrom, Jeremy ;  Brannon, Jeremy
Summary / Abstract (Note)As new academic journals have emerged in political science and existing journals experience increasing submission rates, editors are concerned that scholars experience “reviewer fatigue.” Editors often assume that an overload of requests to review makes scholars less willing to perform the anonymous yet time-consuming tasks associated with reviewing manuscripts. To date, there has not been a systematic investigation of the reasons why scholars decline to review. We empirically investigated the rate at which scholars accept or decline to review, as well as the reasons they gave for declining. We found that reviewer fatigue is only one of several reasons why scholars decline to review. The evidence suggests that scholars are willing to review but that they also lead busy professional and personal lives.
`In' analytical NotePolitical Science and Politics Vol. 48, No.4; Oct 2015: p.595-600
Journal SourcePolitical Science and Politics 2015-12 48, 4
Key WordsAcademic Journals ;  Reviewer Fatigue ;  Scholars Decline to Review