2026-06-04 09:46 UTC
Paying peer reviewers works! The @Co_Biologists journal Biology Open scaled up their "Fast and Fair" trial where they paid peer reviewers £220 per on-time quality review. One year on and time to first decision is now 5.5 working days (down from 37.7 days). This preprint reports their findings.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.02.729548v1
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@Alejandro_P@mathstodon.xyz 2026-06-04 10:22
@steveroyle@biologists.social @Co_Biologists@biologists.social I haven't read it yet ,but how do they control for bad players trying to game the system? With AI, " review farms", etc?
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@dn_mason@mas.to 2026-06-04 10:38
@steveroyle@biologists.social @Co_Biologists@biologists.social glad that the financial aspect is at least discussed, but I wonder how sustainable are further increases to APCs? To make the obvious point for example, this total represents about 0.003% of Elsevier's Annual revenue.