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Opinion: Should review invitations include an explicit expected time budget?
Paper Discussion
Reviewers often underestimate how long a high‑quality review takes. If journals stated an estimated time commitment upfront, would this improve acceptance rates and review quality?
Peter Stewart, Paul Moore and 90 others4 Comments-
Transparent time estimates help reviewers decide whether they can commit.
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Estimates are hard to standardise across different manuscript types.
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Early‑career researchers may accept even heavy requests regardless.
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Journals could tier estimates: short communication vs full research article.
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