In academia, peer review can get thankless. More so, if you do one per week, right through the year and still keep receiving review-pending reminders. I haven’t reached that hectic visibility yet, but do enough to already feel swamped.
No real complaint. Peer review is part of my job.
The thing that most reviewers dread is not those standard peer-review requests that provide enough duration for completion of the task with enough competence. It is the unexpected, one-night-stands, rather demands, that put us off. The anguish felt as a reviewer is measurably more than that felt as an author, awaiting the review results of our submitted paper.
Real complaint. Overnight peer review is (also) part of my job.
But this micro-muse has a happy ending.
