My big concern with this would be incentivizing people to review articles they aren't qualified to review. While I don't know that there's anything I'd actually consider myself a subject matter expert in, I try to only review stuff that is "in my wheelhouse". But if there was $250 involved I'd probably be more likely to accept some of the "borderline" manuscripts.
Good point – though, I'd like to think folks would be reasonable with respect to taking up reviews/editors inviting unqualified reviewers.
For what it's worth, I critique a lot of articles in fields where I don't have deep domain knowledge – most of what makes an article problematic is content agnostic, and issues with study design, recruitment, sample size, outcome measurement, bias, etc.
My big concern with this would be incentivizing people to review articles they aren't qualified to review. While I don't know that there's anything I'd actually consider myself a subject matter expert in, I try to only review stuff that is "in my wheelhouse". But if there was $250 involved I'd probably be more likely to accept some of the "borderline" manuscripts.
Good point – though, I'd like to think folks would be reasonable with respect to taking up reviews/editors inviting unqualified reviewers.
For what it's worth, I critique a lot of articles in fields where I don't have deep domain knowledge – most of what makes an article problematic is content agnostic, and issues with study design, recruitment, sample size, outcome measurement, bias, etc.