September 29, 2025Open Access

Making my peer review activity more useful

Key Points

Reviewing articles is a time-consuming process, taking about seven hours for each review.
In 2020, 73 invitations to review were received, highlighting the extensive engagement in this activity.
The focus on peer review processes suggests a need for methods that better utilize reviewers' time.
The current peer review structure may benefit from innovations that streamline the reviewing experience.

Abstract

Peer review: Time well spent? Peer review is a time-consuming activity. In 2020 I received 73 invitations to review a new article submitted to a scientific journal. On average, reviewing an article, both the original version and possibly also subsequent revised versions, probably takes me about seven hours in total.

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Ludo Waltman (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68da5a3ec1728099cfd11af9 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59350/kkvjr-rsc56

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