Reviews, Reviewers, and Reviewing: The “Tragedy of the Commons” in the Scientific Publication Process

TY - JOUR

T1 - Reviews, Reviewers, and Reviewing: The “Tragedy of the Commons” in the Scientific Publication Process

AU - Stafford, Thomas F.

N1 - Everybody wants to get a good review but not everybody is willing to give a good review. In my experience, this fact has resulted in a modern-day instance of "the tragedy of the commons" in which everyone seeks a precious common resource (in this case, the scholarship of peer review in scientific publication) but everyone less widely provides it.

PY - 2018/1/1

Y1 - 2018/1/1

UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol42/iss1/25/

U2 - 10.17705/1CAIS.04225

DO - 10.17705/1CAIS.04225

M3 - Article

VL - 42

JO - Communications of The ACM

JF - Communications of The ACM

IS - 1

ER -