Comments on: The broken peer-review system: a reviewer’s opinion http://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2009/09/18/the-broken-peer-review-system-a-reviewers-opinion/ Ethan White’s and Morgan Ernest’s blog for discussing issues and ideas related to ecology and academia. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:15:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: No peer review crisis after all? | Jabberwocky Ecology http://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2009/09/18/the-broken-peer-review-system-a-reviewers-opinion/#comment-1322 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:19:08 +0000 http://jabberwockyecology.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/the-broken-peer-review-system-a-reviewers-opinion/#comment-1322 [...] crisis after all? Posted on December 28, 2010 by Ethan| Leave a comment We’ve had a bit of discussion here at JE about potential solutions to the tragedy of the reviewer commons, so I [...]

]]> By: Ethan http://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2009/09/18/the-broken-peer-review-system-a-reviewers-opinion/#comment-70 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:07:04 +0000 http://jabberwockyecology.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/the-broken-peer-review-system-a-reviewers-opinion/#comment-70 I couldn’t agree with this more. I actually received a review request this week from Ecology that included a link to the McPeek et al. paper along with the following sentence “As a journal dependent on the reciprocal nature of peer review, we kindly ask you to observe the golden rule of reviewing.” This actually had the opposite of the desired effect – it made me want to review the paper less. I review on the order of 20 papers per year, get them returned on time, and spend a lot of time working on each review. The implication that somehow if I didn’t review this paper for this journal, right now, that somehow I was being self-centered annoyed rather than inspired me.

Oh, and while I was looking up the above quote, I noticed that I’d received 3 review requests this week.

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