Abstract
This pre-print paper (subsequently published in a journal) and the research reports, reflects on the causes on the crippling burden on people reviewers. And it also discusses the I multiple and complementary strategies that could ease that burden.
Severin, A. & Chataway, J (2021) Overburdening of peer reviewers. A multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspective on causes, effects and potential policy implications. bioRxiv 2021.01.14.426539; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.14.426539
Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.14.426539v1
Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.14.426539v1

Overburdening of peer reviewers. A multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspective on causes, effects and potential policy implications
Peer review of manuscripts is labour-intensive and time-consuming. Individual reviewers often feel themselves overburdened with the amount of reviewing they are requested to do. Aiming to explore how stakeholder groups perceive reviewing burden and what they believe to be the causes of a potential o…