How much is managing your current peer review process costing you?
With SSP’s 48th Annual Meeting happening this week, May 27–29, 2026, conversations around peer review efficiency, and publishing operations feel especially timely.
1. The cost is not only in tool licences
It is also in FTE time spent on admin instead of editorial judgement. In reviewer invitations that go nowhere. In authors who withdraw because your turnaround is slower than the journal they submitted to next.
2. The real cost is often scattered across the system
Most editorial teams do not see this as one number. It sits across budget lines, staff allocations, delayed decisions, manual follow-ups, and quiet choices about what gets deprioritised.
3. Growth should not mean more editorial burden
As submissions increase, many journals end up adding more people, more manual checks, and more reviewer-chasing. Managed peer review helps publishers scale workflows without scaling operational pressure at the same pace.
Make the hidden cost visible. Try Amnet’s free ROI calculator and see where your journal stands.
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