My personal reviewing policy: No more billion-dollar donations – nicebread.de
peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-11-24
Summary:
"I get more requests to review scientific papers than I can reasonably handle [1]. Hence, I have to decide which requests I accept and which I decline.
I want to invest my reviewing work in research that is worth to be reviewed. Furthermore, I do not want to further increase the billion dollar donations to premium publishers any more.
When deciding whether to accept or reject a review, I apply the following heuristics:
Input filter: I decline to review manuscripts that fail these checks
- (A) As a signatory of the Peer Reviewer’s Openness (PRO) initiative and the Commitment to Research Transparency, I expect open data and open material in each paper that I am supposed to review, or a public justification why it is not possible. I do not review manuscripts that fail this check.
- (B) I signed the The Cost of Knowledge pledge, which means that I do not review for (or submit to) Elsevier journals...."