Was intrigued when I saw this initiative launched a little while back. Delighted to see it is working well. Maybe it’ll be the beginning of redressing the balance of power with the publishing houses and help support ECRs and junior faculty.
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...
