I am sure that I am not the only mathematician to have observed how the distribution of refereeing requests during the year is very far from uniform. In the last few days, I have been experiencing a peak of almost one request per day, and I could probably use this to obtain a rough guess of the editorial efficiency of various journals, since it seems more than likely (e.g., because this is what I often do as an author…) that these papers were submitted formally just before the beginning of the new semester.<\/p>\n
It is somewhat interesting to wonder about the possible consequences of this; clearly, if someone gets ten refereeing requests in a few days instead of them being spread over three or four months, many more will be declined, and that is unlikely to lead to an improvement of the mathematics literature…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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