Fig. 2

Molecular Ecology data, plotted by editorial decision type. a Distribution of the number of review invitations sent for manuscripts with different editorial decisions. The black lines are the medians, the boxes indicate the interquartile range, the whiskers extend to 1.5 times the interquartile range (IQR), and the points are outliers beyond 1.5*IQR. b Number of manuscripts with different numbers of completed reviews by decision type. c Mean proportion of completed reviews by decision. The error bars indicate the 95 % confidence intervals