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Strategies to Increase Efficiency of Peer Review in Agricultural Scientific Journals ：
Based on a Questionnaire Survey among Peer Reviewers

  

  1. Editorial Department of Journal, Department of Science and Technology, Tianjin Agricultural
    University, Tianjin, 300392
  • Online:2023-07-15 Published:2023-08-05

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Abstract:

This paper is to explore the strategies for increasing the effificiency of peer review in
agricultural scientifific journals by understanding the factors. 268 peer reviewers were investigated
by self-designed questionnaires. Of these responders，43.6% are aged between 41 and 50;
89.9% will refuse to review an article when it is inconsistent with their own research direction;
81.3% will timely update the information in the reviewing system according to the changes of their
research direction; most of them review articles from various journals; 70% of peer reviewers
can accept one or two articles every month; 78.0% of the responders consider that 2 weeks is an
appropriate peer review cycle; of these responders，35.4% would like to receive a reminder once
a week; E-mail is accepted by 63.1% of the responders; 27.6% will refuse to review an article in
legal holiday; 40% of the responders don’t pay much attention to the peer review fee. Searching
the reviewers in more ways，improving the quality of invitation and reminder，increasing the peer
review fee and establishing a reasonable incentive mechanism are recommended for increasing
the effificiency of peer review.

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