Mikko Tuomimustapipa@scicomm.xyz
Jul 1, 2026, 9:59 AMIn a shocking discovery, scientific #journal finds that people work better when actually paid for it.
In the six-month experiment, reviewers who within four working days delivered a report that their handling editor considered good quality were paid £220 per manuscript.
Paying reviewers not only led to faster first editorial decisions — an average of 5.5 working days, down from nearly 38 for unpaid reviews — but review quality, as judged by handling editors on the basis of helpfulness in making an editorial decision, went up.
