Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer reviewer crisis
Carolina Tropini,
B. Brett Finlay,
Mark Nichter,
Melissa K. Melby,
Jessica L. Metcalf,
Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello,
Liping Zhao,
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai,
Naama Geva-Zatorsky,
Katherine R. Amato,
Eduardo A. Undurraga,
Hendrik N. Poinar,
Jack A. Gilbert
Affiliations
Carolina Tropini
Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
B. Brett Finlay
Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mark Nichter
Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Melissa K. Melby
Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jessica L. Metcalf
Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello
Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Liping Zhao
Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai
Carnegie Institution for Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Naama Geva-Zatorsky
Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Science, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Rappaport Technion Integrated Cancer Center (RTICC), Haifa, Israel
Katherine R. Amato
Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eduardo A. Undurraga
Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hendrik N. Poinar
Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jack A. Gilbert
Department of Pediatrics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
ABSTRACTThere is concern that the time taken to publish academic papers in microbiological science has significantly increased in recent years. While the data do not specifically support this, evidence suggests that editors are having to invite more and more reviewers to identify those willing to perform peer review.
