The current peer-review paradigm does not give reviewers either compensation or citeable academic recognition for their time and expertise. the new R-index will incentive participation of researchers of all career stages in the peer-review system. More importantly, the R-index intends to encourage not only more, but also better, reviews of manuscripts. The H-index, and IF before it, created the substrate for discussion and change, arguably negative or positive, in our community in relation to researcher assessment. We believe that the R-index quantifying reviewers, and the discussion which follows, will do the same for our peer-review system.
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Cantor M, Gero S. 2015 The missing metric: quantifying contributions of reviewers. R. Soc. open sci. 2: 140540. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140540
Hello Maria, I am quite comfortable with peer reviewing. I agreed to review for 2 journals. So far, I reviewed a paper for one journal; but I had to turn down the offer to review 2 papers from another journal. As long as I have a choice to review or to reject reviewing, I shall be comfortable. Our time is not a lot, and we have our own duties (teaching, researching, writing, etc), but we have to give back to the journal the service that we have benefited, as peer reviewers.
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