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Christopher P Morley¹, Jacob Prunuske², Julie P Phillips³

¹Department of Family Medicine, Norton College of Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

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Peer reviewer responsiveness continues to decline, with fewer accepting invitations and completing reviews. This trend necessitates new strategies to support scholarly peer review.

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Area of Science:

Scholarly Publishing
Academic Peer Review
Bibliometrics

Background:

Securing peer reviewers is critical for journal operations but increasingly difficult.
Previous data indicated declining reviewer responsiveness, prompting an examination of this trend over time.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze trends in peer reviewer invitation acceptance and completion rates for scholarly manuscripts.
To determine if the previously observed decline in reviewer responsiveness has persisted.

Main Methods:

Retrospective analysis of reviewer invitation outcomes for research briefs submitted to PRiMER (2017-2025).
Data extracted from ScholarOne editorial database.
Statistical analysis using chi-squared tests and fixed-effect binary logistic regression.

Main Results:

Reviewer invitation acceptance peaked in 2020 and significantly declined by 2024-2025 (OR=0.656, P<.001).
Review completion rates also decreased significantly from 2021 to 2025 (OR=0.707, P<.001).
No significant time trend was observed in late review rates.

Conclusions:

Reviewer responsiveness to invitations and subsequent review completion has continued to decline.
The findings suggest a need for innovative strategies to recruit, engage, and incentivize peer reviewers to maintain the integrity of scholarly publishing.