Hello,
How often do you decline invitations to write a review of a manuscript for a journal?
I've received quite a few review invitations lately, especially from journals I publish in myself. From time to time I decline invitations, especially if they are too far away from my subject area. In principle, I like to write reviews; as a researcher, you are then forced to deal with a paper in depth and work out exactly what is strong and weak about it. As an author, I am also dependent on others being willing to write reviews. At the same time, however, a review usually takes quite a long time to complete, in which you don't get to do all the other things that need to be done, so that the question arises as to how many reviews you should actually expect of yourself.
What do you think? How many reviews do you normally write and according to which principle - apart from content - do you reject requests?
Dear Joachim Kimmerle,
In my opinion, the issue of reviewing the texts planned for publication is determined by so many factors regarding the reviewer, university or other science institution in which it operates, the type of peer-reviewed scientific texts, etc. that it is impossible to define in this matter any one universal formula to which every scientist a researcher and a research and teaching worker should apply.
Best wishes
Paul: I generally accept an invitation to review a journal manuscript. The only reason I would decline an invitation is when I am extremely busy and just don't have enough time to devote to this effort.
Unfortunately, due to personal problems, I often decline review invitations. So you could say that my review activities are four or five cases in a year.
Rarely, Just when the scope of the manuscript is beyond my research interests
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