Ignacio García-Doval (
Complexo Hospitalario de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain
The author has declared that no competing interests exist.
After reading your interesting paper [
So, they will probably stick to the old practice: try to get a good group of reviewers and ask them to do it. However, this way of working is based on the assumption that being a good reviewer is a long-lasting quality, so that doing a good review predicts that the next review will also be good.
I could not find a clear answer to that question in this paper. I think that with their dataset the authors can probably provide us with an answer that will reassure editors on their decision to stick to the group of reviewers that have produced good reviews in the past.
Would they be so kind?