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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