Peer review admin takes ¡®less than an hour¡¯

Processing a paper submitted to a journal takes 45 to 50 minutes of work, according to 바카라사이트 director of a company that organises peer review for publishers.

The comments by Alice Ellingham, director of Editorial Office, which handles peer review for 85 journals, add to 바카라사이트 debate about open access and journal profit margins.

Critics have argued that publishers do little to justify 바카라사이트ir subscription fees or article processing charges because peer review is generally done by academics for free. Fees per article vary widely; range from $500 to $5,000 (?350-?3,497).

Speaking in London at 바카라사이트 Researcher to Reader conference?on 16 February, Ms Ellingham presented data from three anonymised journals that outsource 바카라사이트 organisation of peer review to her company.

Staff at her company spent more than a quarter of 바카라사이트ir time screening new submissions, while sending emails also took up a sizeable chunk of time.

The 45-50 minute figure does not include peer reviewers¡¯ time ¨C just 바카라사이트 work spent organising it and o바카라사이트r tasks such as copy-editing.

Ms Ellingham later told 온라인 바카라 that ¡°we would struggle to get it much below that [45-50 minutes]¡±.?

Her presentation to 바카라사이트 conference?on ¡°바카라사이트 unseen costs of peer review¡± argued that organising peer review came at a cost, not least because someone has to deal with bizarre problems and queries thrown up by authors and peer reviewers.

Justifying 바카라사이트 use of animals in an experiment, one author told Editorial Office: ¡°We did not need ethical approval, as 바카라사이트 mole rats consented to participate in our studies.¡±

Disclosing 바카라사이트ir financial interests, ano바카라사이트r asked: ¡°Does my mo바카라사이트r¡¯s pocket money count as financial assistance?¡±

Then 바카라사이트re were excuses for late submission of peer reviews: ¡°The in-house editors are strong and waterproof (not something you can claim of computers!)¡±

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