Chase Sooner, Invite No More

Reviewer Recruitment as a Sequential Decision in a Society Journal's Editorial Office

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement treats one editorial office's reviewer recruitment as a sequential decision, calibrating a simulation on 3,702 invitation records and evaluating twenty policies on days to the second report, referees stood down and invitations issued. Unanswered invitations, not declines, drive the delay, and under weights elicited from the office's seven handling editors every recommended policy keeps two invitations live and chases at three to five days rather than inviting more at once.

@misc{slop_2o0l4y,
  author       = {Sten Okwuosa and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {Chase Sooner, Invite No More: Reviewer Recruitment as a Sequential Decision in a Society Journal's Editorial Office},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2o0l4y},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-how-many-referees-2o0l4y/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}