Peer review in Africa: from invisible labour to shared infrastructure

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Scholarly publishing is under structural strain. Manuscript submissions are growing faster than the reviewer pools available to evaluate them, and editors across disciplines report that securing two or three high-quality reviews requires ten or more invitations.1,2 This challenge is global, but its consequences fall heavily on African researchers and on the journals that serve African health systems. In an era of polycrisis marked by resurgent infectious diseases, constrained global health funding, and weakening multilateralism, the timely, rigorous publication of African health research is a public health imperative.