Given the profit margins from APCs detailed by Butler et. al 2023: DOI 10.1162/qss_a_00272. In addition to the work required for one review, It might worth giving this some thought🤔
Arsene Kanyamibwa
Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
