• It has become increasingly difficult for journal editors to find reviewers, while researchers are receiving increasing requests to be reviewers.
• Publons is used by some editors to identify potential reviewers, but may be a source of a high volume of sometimes poorly targeted requests.
• By systematically turning on and off his availability to be a reviewer in Publons, the author was able to show that it is a major source of the large number and sometimes inappropriate requests he received.
• Automatically generated reviewer suggestions need to be intelligently vetted by editors to avoid overwhelming potential reviewers.
• The academic publishing industry could usefully develop professional standards of good practice for reviewer selection.

中文翻译：

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Publons 作为大量、针对性不强的审稿人请求的来源：出版商需要更好的实践标准

• 期刊编辑找到审稿人变得越来越困难，而研究人员收到越来越多的审稿人要求。
• 一些编辑使用 Publons 来识别潜在的审稿人，但可能是大量有时针对性不强的请求的来源。
• 通过系统地打开和关闭他是否可以成为 Publons 的审稿人，作者能够证明这是他收到的大量请求的主要来源，有时甚至是不恰当的请求。
• 自动生成的审稿人建议需要由编辑进行智能审查，以避免压倒潜在审稿人。
• 学术出版业可以为审稿人选择制定良好实践的专业标准。