Facts and Myths about Refereeing
基于七本经济学期刊的随机样本数据，分析了审稿人和编辑的行为，发现审稿人质量通常高于作者，近80%的受邀者会审稿，中位完成时间不到两个月，付费能加快审稿速度。
Referees’ and editors’ behavior is illustrated by data from a random sample of refereeing requests by seven economics journals. Referees tend to be higher-quality (better-cited, prime-age) than authors. Except for a few superstar authors, there is no matching of authors and referees by quality. Nearly 80 percent of those asked to referee do so, with a median completion time of less than two months. Except for a few very slow referees and another few who promise but fail to accomplish the task, the slow editorial process is not due to referees’ behavior. Paying referees speeds the job, mainly by speeding up those who would barely not qualify for the fee.