Extraordinary Meeting: The Publicity Chairs Reflect on the Peer-Review Process
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A reflective, often comic diagnosis of peer review that names concrete pain points and behavior not just ideals It highlights workload pressures with numbers like 70 reviews done, 1 left and a fortnight deadline and literal piles of manuscripts (7‑tall pile), calls out citation bias and petty formatting gatekeeping, and flags unpaid labor and uneven standards as structural problems The format uses parody songs and specific anecdotes to show how process flaws shape accept / reject decisions
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