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ArticlePRiMER (Leawood, Kan.)2025

Reviewer Engagement Trends at a Journal: Cause for Concern.

Christopher P Morley, Jacob Prunuske, Julie P Phillips, Andrea L Wendling, Joel J Heidelbaugh, Sam Grammer

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Article in PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Christopher P MorleyDepartment of Family Medicine, Norton College of Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.
Jacob PrunuskeDepartment of Family Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD.
Julie P PhillipsDepartment of Family Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
Andrea L WendlingDepartment of Family Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
Joel J HeidelbaughDepartment of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI.
Sam GrammerSociety of Teachers of Family Medicine, Leawood, KS.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: Securing peer reviewers for scholarly manuscripts is essential to journal operations but has become increasingly challenging. Previous Methods: We conducted a retrospective secondary analysis of reviewer invitation outcomes for all research manuscripts submitted to Results: Invitation acceptance peaked at 56.14% in 2020, then declined to 35.71% in 2024 and 38.58% in 2025-the lowest since journal inception. Logistic regression revealed a significant negative annual trend (OR=0.656, Conclusion: Reviewer responsiveness to

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PMID41531847
PMCPMC12795567

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