I reg­u­larly get emails from peo­ple want­ing to be ref­er­ees for the Inter­na­tional Jour­nal of Fore­cast­ing, usu­ally with an accom­pa­ny­ing CV. This is not how the process works.

Ref­er­ees are almost always selected because they have pre­vi­ously writ­ten papers on a sim­i­lar topic to the man­u­script under review. If you want to be a ref­eree, then write good papers and get them pub­lished in schol­arly jour­nals. Very quickly you will be invited to ref­eree papers in the same jour­nals. But until you have demon­strated your own research skills, no edi­tor is going to trust you to assess the research of some­one else.

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