Aczel and colleagues estimated that the total time that reviewers worked on peer reviews globally was over 100 million hours in 2020.

 The peer review system in academic publishing is not only time consuming and costly but has many other flaws, including biased reviews, inconsistency, absence of reward, difficulty in finding reviewers, and slowness.

 These flaws hamper scientific progress, career progress, and might even cost lives.

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