Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer reviewer crisis

Author:

Tropini Carolina123ORCID,Finlay B. Brett124,Nichter Mark15,Melby Melissa K.16,Metcalf Jessica L.7ORCID,Dominguez-Bello Maria Gloria189ORCID,Zhao Liping18,McFall-Ngai Margaret J.10,Geva-Zatorsky Naama11,Amato Katherine R.112,Undurraga Eduardo A.11314,Poinar Hendrik N.115,Gilbert Jack A.16ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

3. School of Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

4. Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology and the Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

5. School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

6. Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA

7. Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

8. Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

9. Department of Anthropolog, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

10. Carnegie Institution for Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

11. Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Science, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Rappaport Technion Integrated Cancer Center (RTICC), Haifa, Israel

12. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

13. Escuela de Gobierno, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile

14. Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN), Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile

15. Departments of Anthropology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

16. Department of Pediatrics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

Abstract

ABSTRACT There is concern that the time taken to publish academic papers in microbiological science has significantly increased in recent years. While the data do not specifically support this, evidence suggests that editors are having to invite more and more reviewers to identify those willing to perform peer review.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Microbiology

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