Do Reviewers Get Paid?
A Vital, and Often Overlooked, Aspect of Peer Review Is That in the Current System, Peer Reviewers Are Normally Not Paid for Their Work. They Are, Instead...
A vital, and often overlooked, aspect of peer review is that in the current system, peer reviewers are normally not paid for their work. They are, instead, rewarded non-financially by means of acknowledgment in journals, positions on editorial boards, free journal access, discounts on author fees, etc.
Are journal peer reviewers paid?
Of course, an APC or article-processing charge [required by some journals to make articles free to read on publication] is only paid by the articles that get accepted for publication, and the cost of reviewing the rejected ones is loaded into the APC.
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Should journals pay reviewers?
On whether journals can afford to pay peer reviewers
A.M.: There is no practical way to pay reviewers without wrecking peer review. Reviews vary wildly in length, quality, and complexity.
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