Dear community,
this seems to have been out there since 2018 in medical sciences, but I only stumbled over it recently:
https://taylorandfrancis.com/partnership/commercial/accelerated-publication/
T&F are offering extremely fast review and publication times for a higher fee, they pay reviewers for handing in reviews in time. How do you feel about this? Will this bias acceptance of papers and just be a new way to buy a publication? Or do you think this is the right incentive for reviewers and a way to recognize the importance of fast and constructive review?
I would be interested in your opinion.
Dr Daniela E. Winkler, I am not sure this is meant to compensate their reviewers, perhaps as a surcharge to take care of other clerical purposes and indexing. T & F is known to reward their reviewers through APC reduction and by allowing them to read their subscribed journals freely.
Daniela E. Winkler If time is of the essence in your publication strategy, our Accelerated Publication options can help you quickly have your research published in a high-quality, peer-reviewed journal. You may use Accelerated Publication to align your publication schedule with conferences, medication approvals, and drug launches.
I think it's a good idea as long as the review process is still of a high standard and it will be with T & F. It's an incentive for reviewers who work hard and people who value their research above money and I appreciate it. No one in the future will complain about spending money to have their research published rapidly in a HI journal, but people will always regret spending too little and receiving poor service. And to be honest, I get annoyed by people continually complaining about having to pay for publication or trying to find loopholes to avoid paying. It's just the way it is now: authors paying instead of readers, and this new service is just an extension of that :)
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