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Change might happen faster than you'd expect. Research funded by the Europen commission started their own open publication platform: https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/about You can submit your paper before peer-review.

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Thanks for the comment! I actually have a co-authored paper in Open Research Europe (https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-22/v2). I agree, things are changing, just not as quickly as I would like. We'll see....

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Patience! :) As I've heard many eco-enthusiasts tell me: Sometimes, you need to believe in it for things to change - because if you don't believe in it, who will?

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Except that the data show that there are now more eligible potential reviewers per paper than 10 years ago in all fields -- that is because we have larger teams authoring a larger amount of papers, but the team size has increased faster than the number of papers.

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Thanks for the comment. I don't know what data you are referring to. Do you have a link to a paper?

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