Albert Arianne Y K, Gow Jennifer L, Cobra Alison, Vines Timothy H
1Women's Health Research Institute, 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC Canada V6H 3N1.
Molecular Ecology Editorial Office, 6270 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4.
Res Integr Peer Rev. 2016 Nov 4;1:14. doi: 10.1186/s41073-016-0022-7. eCollection 2016.
There is concern in the academic publishing community that it is becoming more difficult to secure reviews for peer-reviewed manuscripts, but much of this concern stems from anecdotal and rhetorical evidence.
We examined the proportion of review requests that led to a completed review over a 6-year period (2009-2015) in a mid-tier biology journal (). We also re-analyzed previously published data from four other mid-tier ecology journals (, , , and ), looking at the same proportion over the period 2003 to 2010.
The data from showed no significant decrease through time in the proportion of requests that led to a review (proportion in 2009 = 0.47 (95 % CI = 0.43 to 0.52), proportion in 2015 = 0.44 (95 % CI = 0.40 to 0.48)). This proportion did decrease for three of the other ecology journals (changes in proportions from 2003 to 2010 = -0.10, -0.18, and -0.09), while the proportion for the fourth () stayed roughly constant (change in proportion = -0.04).
Overall, our data suggest that reviewer agreement rates have probably declined slightly but not to the extent suggested by the anecdotal and rhetorical evidence.
学术出版界担心为同行评审稿件获得评审意见变得越来越困难，但这种担忧大多源于传闻和言辞证据。
我们研究了一本中等水平生物学杂志在6年期间（2009 - 2015年）收到的评审请求中最终形成完整评审意见的比例。我们还重新分析了其他四本中等水平生态学杂志（[杂志名称1]、[杂志名称2]、[杂志名称3]和[杂志名称4]）先前发表的数据，查看2003年至2010年期间的相同比例。
[杂志名称]的数据显示，随着时间推移，导致形成评审意见的请求比例没有显著下降（2009年比例 = 0.47（95%置信区间 = 0.43至0.52），2015年比例 = 0.44（95%置信区间 = 0.40至0.48））。其他三本生态学杂志的这一比例有所下降（2003年至2010年比例变化 = -0.10、-0.18和 -0.09），而第四本杂志（[杂志名称4]）的比例大致保持不变（比例变化 = -0.04）。
总体而言，我们的数据表明评审员同意率可能略有下降，但未达到传闻和言辞证据所显示的程度。
