Reviewer Fatigue? Why Scholars Decline to Review their Peers' Work

被引:35
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作者
Breuning, Marijke [1 ]
Backstrom, Jeremy [2 ]
Brannon, Jeremy [1 ]
Gross, Benjamin Isaak [1 ]
Widmeier, Michael [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ N Texas, Denton, TX 76203 USA
[2] Natl Consortium, START, Buffalo, NY USA
关键词
POLITICAL-SCIENCE; GENDER; GAP;
D O I
10.1017/S1049096515000827
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
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.
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页码:595 / 600
页数:6
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