Sam Lehman-wilzig <Sam.Lehman-Wilzig@biu.ac.il> schrieb am 11.09.2013 um 14:28 in Nachricht <12CC0190-5EE2-41B7-BB59-F30F1D1A6004@biu.ac.il>: Hi all: I find interesting that no one seems to realize that the two seemingly "unrelated" topics we are discussing (see below) are actually the same issue! If there is performing "alienated labor" it is academic referees of articles, editors of journals, etc -- who are not compensated for their work! Why shouldn't an academic, COMMERCIAL journal (one that demands payment from subscribers -- institutional and individual), PAY article reviewers, the journal editors etc for their reviews? If they did that, then the reviewers would feel a lot more obligated to devote serious attention to their refereeing review. In my opinion, paying for article review (even if it's $100 or so per article) would solve most of the problems mentioned here regarding unprofessional (or no-show) reviewers -- and perhaps also sensitizing them a bit more to the whole issue of "alienated labor" in other spheres. Sam
I am sceptical concerning your reasoning. 1. Money, as a hygiene factor, will not rise quality of reviews for a long time and can even have adverse effects (cf. http://thefilter.blogs.com/thefilter/2009/12/the-israeli-childcare-experimen...); 2. Now we need someone verifying the work of reviewers (as money will have to be paid upon successfull completion of work), thus quality control for quality control; and 3. as reviewers will have to be paid, publishers have another argument to raise prices from 100$ to 120$. Disclosure: I believe in Open Science Thus I see the relation between these two topics, yet they call for a different solution. Johann
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