How to Help Solve the Reviewer Problem in Academic Publishing

Abstract

We are delighted to introduce Volume 26 of the ABR, and this editorial is about a problem that journal editors in all academic disciplines face. The situation is a familiar one to Academic Journal Editors. You have a deluge of submissions, and authors vigorously follow up on the status of their submissions while reviewers are reluctant to accept the review request. To the credit of ABR reviewers, they get the review done once they accept the assignment. Our last year’s editorial (Upadhyaya and Roy, 2022) thanked those reviewers. We thought we should explore the “finding reviewer” problem in our 2023 Editorial, given that the problem is so pervasive in academic publishing.