Reviewers & Editors: Roles and Responsibilities | New Video Series
Academic publishing is not only about writing good papers. It is about understanding a system that filters, selects, rejects, and shapes more than 2.5 million peer-reviewed articles every year, with rejection rates above 90% in top-tier journals.
Today, I am launching a new video playlist: Reviewers & Editors: Roles & Responsibilities
This series provides a comprehensive, unfiltered introduction to how peer review and editorial decision-making actually work beyond author guidelines, checklists, and myths. Reviewers and editors are the gatekeepers of scientific integrity, quality, and credibility. At the same time, they operate under structural constraints: unpaid reviewing, time pressure, reviewer fatigue, commercial publishing models, and growing volumes of submissions.
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📽️ This first video covers
• Why reviewers and editors matter for scientific standards
• The scale and economics of the publishing industry
• Structural weaknesses of peer review and why quality varies
• Open science: ethics, costs, and strategic implications
• The changing position of researchers in a commercialized system
• Introduction to the full playlist and how to use it strategically
⏱️ Chapters
01:13 Why reviewers and editors matter
02:27 The publishing industry at scale
03:43 Structural challenges in peer review
05:27 Open science and its implications
07:04 Researchers in a commercial system
08:41 Introducing the playlist
10:27 Call to action
This is not a diagnostic series only. It is action-oriented.
Over the coming months, with one new video every month, the playlist will equip researchers to:
• select and interact with reviewers
• review papers rigorously and ethically
• respond strategically to reviewer comments
• handle rejection, desk rejection, and retraction
• understand the editor’s role and pathways to becoming an editor
This content is designed for early- to mid-career researchers who want to move from passive submission to informed navigation of the peer-review and editorial process.
The guiding principle is simple: Academic publishing is a strategic system. To succeed, researchers must think several steps ahead.
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