Peer review is widely described as being under strain, but conversations often focus on motivations, volumes, and scarcity. This session shifts the discussion upstream, asking more practical questions: What causes reviewer fatigue? And what would actually influence a reviewer’s decision to accept, engage deeply, and return?
Drawing on real-world practices across journals, societies, publishers, and reviewer communities, this industry breakout session examines recurring friction points such as unclear expectations, inconsistent guidance, and uneven recognition. It reframes “reviewer support” as a combination of expectation setting, training, structured guidance, recognition, and workload design.
The session introduces ReviewerOne as an ecosystem that supports peer reviewers through tools, learning, and community, sharing use cases and reviewer perspectives that illustrate practical, low-friction strategies for improving reviewer engagement and peer review quality.
The session also reflects on where responsibility for reviewer sustainability should sit and how it can be shared more equitably across the system.
