Positive assortment for peer review
- C Athena Aktipis
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, aktipis@alumni.reed.edu
Abstract
We suggest that the introduction of
positive assortment (the pairing of individuals with similar
characteristics) to the peer
review process would increase the speed of
reviewing, improve the quality of reviews, and decrease the burden on
reviewers.
In assortative reviewing, each reviewer is given a
score based on speed of reviewing, the usefulness of the review, the
rate
of reviewing, or any other priority of the journal
editor. Authors submitting manuscripts are then paired with reviewers
who
have similar scores to themselves. This is a
no-cost solution that aligns reviewers’ incentives by accounting for the
benefits
provided to the scientific community and returning
them in kind. This assortative reviewing system can promote rapid, high
quality, and high volume reviewing at a benefit to
the scientific community at no financial cost.
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