Reciprocal Reviews
Make peer review count.
Academia incentivizes publishing over peer review. That means too many submissions and not enough reviews, or reviews that are late and low quality.
Reciprocal Reviews breaks this cycle:
- Editors set a cost for submissions, priced in review tokens, e.g. ★ 10 tokens.
- Authors earn tokens by volunteering for venues, sharing expertise and availability, and submitting on-time, quality reviews, on whatever reviewing platform a venue uses.
- Authors spend tokens to submit manuscripts for review, splitting the cost with co-authors. Or, they can gift tokens to individuals or shared pools to strategically support newcomers, colleagues in crisis, or emerging topics.
Because authors need to submit high-quality, on-time reviews to submit, authors get better, faster reviews, editors do less nagging, communities overall have a fairer distribution of peer review labor.
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Interested in adopting? See the journals and conferences using the platform and reach out to their editors for their experiences. Or, log in to propose a journal or conference adopt Reciprocal Reviews.
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Don't want to set a cost? Use Reciprocal Reviews to track volunteer reviewers and
expertise in your community, streamlining reviewing and program committee invitations.
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We are a volunteer community of academics, not a for-profit organization.
Our only goal is to improve the sustainability, quality, and integrity of peer review. See our about page if you're interested in helping.
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