The Academic Review Process: How Can We Make it More Efficient?

Ofer Azar

General Economics and Teaching from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Recently many editors try to reduce the turnaround times of academic journals. Shorter turnaround times, however, will induce many additional submissions of low-quality papers, increasing significantly the workload of editors and referees, and the number of rejections prior to publication. I suggest several ideas how editors can shorten turnaround times and four ideas how they can still avoid frivolous submissions, thus improving the review process efficiency: higher submission fees; requiring authors to review papers in proportion to their submissions; using differential editorial delay – letting low-quality papers wait more; and banning papers from being submitted after a certain number of rejections.

Keywords: Academic publishing; first response times; editorial process; review process; refereeing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 A2 I2 J44 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2005-02-20
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 30
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