@khinsen @albertcardona @brembs @ReviewCommons
yes. I also think not everybody appreciates that most of what seems crazy about publishing and peer review takes on a totally different light on your first day as editor, thinking "I know exactly who to get to review this manuscript" and then seeing everyone reject the invitation....
recruiting competent reviewers is the biggest challenge as an editor. I don't see that magically evaporating as a problem just by moving to other models.
@UlrikeHahn @khinsen @albertcardona @ReviewCommons
From my own experience as editor and reviewer I can say that my motivation to review will shoot up when manuscripts become easy to review.
I'm currently reviewing for PNAS and already after the first page, I'm already regretting my decision to accept: manuscript (PDF only) in two columns with methods in supplement. It's as if they purposefully want to make me hate reviewing.
@brembs @UlrikeHahn @khinsen @ReviewCommons
In my experience, in the rare occasion when a manuscript is formatted in a way that impedes swift review, I let the editor know and I request to be reformatted in some other way. Editors are happy to oblige (finding reviewers is hard) and authors go along—because let’s be clear, in almost all journals the editor doesn’t edit or do any actual work other than management.
@albertcardona @UlrikeHahn @khinsen @ReviewCommons
I don't do that every time, but sometimes and I have never received a new version, ever.
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@brembs @UlrikeHahn @khinsen @ReviewCommons
I have never not received an updated version. Also, I let the editor know that I'll await the updated version to start the review. Leverage works.
@albertcardona @UlrikeHahn @khinsen @ReviewCommons
I very often send them this link:
http://bjoern.brembs.net/2015/02/publishers-stop-torturing-your-reviewers/
and they apologize and that's that. No review from me.
@brembs @albertcardona @UlrikeHahn @ReviewCommons
My "hack" for this is to use VSCode (with Latex Workshop) to open 3 copies of the PDF in 3 panes and have my comments in a text windows in a 4th pane. 1st pane is the text I'm reading, 2nd pane is the current figure , 3rd pane is methods / supplemental figures.
@albertcardona @jerlich @UlrikeHahn @ReviewCommons
I'm sure someone at some publisher somewhere is seeing this discussion here and wonders: "I'm sure there must be additional bugs we can build into our peer-review system to make these dumbass reviewers jump through even more hoops to work for us!"
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@albertcardona I'm mostly a Mac user. I tried some but they are not very stable on Mac. I was using Pop_OS! for a bit and was using a tiling window manager, butI never became super efficient with it.
@jerlich Have you explored tiling window managers yet? Because this is what you want.
@brembs @UlrikeHahn @ReviewCommons