Why are reviews written less and less?

HA good review of the journal should provide knowledgeable information about the work and its basic theses, include it in the current state of research, highlight methodological and content-related strengths and weaknesses, fair judgment and phrase it in an attractive manner in order to give readers a proper impression of the scholarly significance of the new publication. Criticism should also aim at the extent to which the author meets his or her own standards rather than just the critic’s.

Reviews document advances in science. But reviews in journals are receiving diminishing attention, perhaps not only in the humanities and social sciences. There are many reasons for the decline of the review system in publications, related to quality and quantity, which became clear a long time ago, some of which are recent. The effort expended on the audit is often disproportionate to the auditor’s return, even though they make use of it for their future work. Established scholars no longer feel the need to critique contest texts—if they do, it will be in national dailies and weeklies (which now allow less room for revisions than before): fees are charged, clarity increases, reputation well wanes, criticism appears faster .