Early career researchers often receive no credit for ‘ghostwritten’ peer reviews

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Half of young scientists have critiqued papers without being named

A survey of hundreds of early career researchers suggests that many make unrecognised contributions to peer reviewing scientific papers, providing ideas and text for a report without being named or credited when it is submitted to journal editors. Researchers from two US universities working with the organisation Future of Research collected survey responses from 498 early career researchers from across the sciences. Three-quarters of those polled said they had participated in co-reviewing