{"id":546,"date":"2016-08-14T21:55:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T01:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2017-01-15T21:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T02:28:06","slug":"how-many-peer-reviews-do-you-do-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"How many peer reviews do you do in a year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a folder where I put all the files I create while peer reviewing a manuscript. This weekend I finished the fourth of 2016, and I usually assume the fourth will be the last. I wondered if that was <em>always<\/em> true. By counting up the files in this folder, I was able to see how many I had done each year, plotted below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peer-reviews-chart-Sheet1-Sheet1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-547 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/peer-reviews-chart-Sheet1-Sheet1-1024x619.png\" alt=\"peer reviews chart\" width=\"416\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four is in fact the most common number (the &#8220;mode&#8221; in this dataset, if you will). But what happened in 2013 and why did I do eight? By the way, I also see one of those had three revisions.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update October 2016:<\/strong> I spoke too soon. I&#8217;m going to hit nine this year. You&#8217;re welcome, editors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update January\u00a02017:<\/strong>\u00a0Final tally: eleven. I believe in my heart of hearts the late-breaking rush was due to my tempting fate with this very post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a folder where I put all the files I create while peer reviewing a manuscript. This weekend I finished the fourth of 2016, and I usually assume the fourth will be the last. I wondered if that was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=546\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}