Studies investigating the refusal rates of peer reviewing in journals

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In "Learned Publishing, Vol 23,No.2 Aril 2010, titled "Reliability of reviewers' ratings when using public peer review: a case study" that would be interested in this topic, please online http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/default.asp?ID=310&groupid=196&groupname=Research+26+Publications to search this paper, thanks.

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>In the May 2010 issue of the JOURNAL OF CHILD NEUROLOGY, Lorraine Ferris (an officer of WAME -- World Association of Medical Editors) and I published an editorial entitled "Academic Merit, Promotion, and Journal Peer Reviewing: The Role of Academic Institutions In Providing Proper Recognition " [J Child Neurol 2010; 25: 538-540] (http://jcn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/25/5/538). We included some information on this subject.
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>Dear All,
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>We are wondering if someone would be able to help us locate a reference regarding the refusal rates in peer reviewing in journals, or in other words, how many potential reviewers decline the invitation to review a paper or a research proposal.
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>Does anyone know of a study that investigated this?
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>Looking forward to your replies.
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>Kind regards,
>Gjemma
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