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Researchers have estimated that academics collectively spent over 100 million hours (~15,000 people years) reviewing ~4.7 million manuscripts and pre-prints every year for possible publishing in 30,000 scientific journals. That research only considered papers submitted to journals and did not consider the millions of papers that are posted to various preprint repositories. When those are considered, it becomes clear that