Science benefits when junior scientists sign up as reviewers. It’s also good for their careers.
to early-career researchers from around the world. After training, participants enter the reviewer pool at the journal. The course runs annually and is likely to open its next application cycle in the next few months, according to GSA communications manager Jacqueline Treboschi.
But once researchers get into the reviewer pool, another problem can arise: a deluge of requests. When Sugimoto was an assistant professor, she reviewed about one paper a month, but as her career advanced, the rate of invitations increased. “It’s not uncommon for me to get hundreds of requests per year,” says Sugimoto, now a tenured faculty member. “At a certain point, you just start saying no.”
Mirjalili says it’s not acceptable to contact authors during the review process, even to ask questions or clarify a point. Instead, he says, “Get in touch with the journal”. Editors will want to track queries, and direct discussions between reviewers and authors could break confidentiality and make the review unusable.
Aiming to improve transparency, some journals might identify the authors and reviewers to each other, or even publish reviews alongside the final paper. Such ‘open review’ has been growing in popularity over the past five years, with nearly 80% of medical and scientific journals using it at least occasionally. One advantage is that open review is expected to make referees consider the scientific issues at hand more carefully. Open reviews tend to be shorter and nicer, says Sugimoto.
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