Credit: SvetaZi/iStock via Getty Early-career fellowships play a key part in helping researchers to move from supervised work to greater independence. The intense competition, however, can make the application process daunting for early-career researchers (ECRs). Based on our experience of running a successful fellowship support structure in the chemistry department at University College London (UCL),
Paying reviewers led to faster first editorial decisions and higher quality reviews in a trial in the journal open biology.Credit: Phimwilai Kitsuriya/Getty Science depends on peer review, but the process can be delayed. To solve this problem, in July 2024, the magazine open biology He tried something unconventional: paying his reviewers. In the six-month experiment,
