This is a good minimum. But even if it's a slow research year/season for you & you haven't submitted stuff in a while, that doesn't mean you're free from expectations of academic citizenship.
If you're collecting a paycheck as a professional academic, you should keep doing peer-reviews regularly.
The rule is that you do (at least) three reviews in exchange for every time you submit a manuscript to a new journal.
If you don't do that we put you in the stocks and we throw tomatoes at you.
Apr 29, 2025 16:19I understand there are caveats when life completely falls apart. I'm not talking to scholars living in crisis with absolutely no time or energy for anything else. I hope that'd be obvious, but I'll make it clear just the same.
