At $450 per review, I confess that I would probably rescind my longstanding personal policy of not doing peer reviews and maybe start doing them.To be clear: I’ve done lots of project and funding reviews as part of my day job; it comes with the salary and I don’t mind doing it (I actually learn a lot). But academic journals aren’t my employer, and they’re not paying my employer. They expect people to work for them for free. That doesn’t interest me. But if they were paying? Yeah, especially during my upcoming retirement as I look for new forms of part-time income to supplement my public service pension (which is not, as the media claims, gold-plated), doing a few reviews a week would work really well for me. But of course, large and wealthy publishing corporations didn’t get that way by actually paying their academic employees. See also: An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics. Via Andrew J. Steinmetz.
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