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Publishers trial paying peer reviewers – what did they find?
Two journals embarked on efforts to compensate reviewers, with different results.
Although both trials are small, they are a good start at gathering data on paid peer review, says Balazs Aczel, a psychologist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Journal editors now find it harder to secure reviews and some scientists have questioned the fairness of their voluntary labour being relied upon by some highly profitable publishing companies. Intrigued about the effect of paying peer reviewers, editors at the journal Critical Care Medicine launched a six-month experiment led by David Maslove, a clinical scientist at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
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