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‘Referee factor’ would reward a vital contribution

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Sir

At a time when academia is increasingly focused on measures of performance, there is no provision for those who referee articles, even though the process is onerous, time-consuming and critical to the advance of science. For the system to be fair, all scientists should be refereeing two to three times as many articles as they submit.

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