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. 2015 Apr 16;5(10):1970–1980. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1480

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(A) The number of reviewers invited, agreed to review, submitting a review, and declining to review from 2004 to 2013. Note that Functional Ecology editors have had to invite increasingly more reviewers to obtain approximately the same number of reviews (two per paper) over the course of the 10-year period. (B) Cubic spline fit (with binomial data) for the probability of rejection versus the number of reviewers that declined to review a manuscript. The analysis controls for the effect Submission Year.