Reviewer A begins:
Before you submit your paper to scientific journals and ask their editors and reviewers to invest considerable time and effort in evaluating it, please have your colleagues read it over, to make sure that it makes sense to other people. It is part of the professional courtesy. Unfortunately, you have failed to do this most fundamental task. As a result, your paper is very unfocused and makes very little sense to other readers...Reviewer B begins:
This paper is clearly written...
10 comments:
you don't give us enough information, jeremy. what if reviewer b's sentence was "this paper is clearly written by a monkey." that changes the tone, doesn't it.
See, I thought it meant that the paper was written, not typed. Or that the parts that were clear were not written, and the parts that were written were not clear.
dorotha stole my point.
But you see this sort of thing all the time in these comments.
i've reviewed scores of papers for peer-reviewed journals and i've never seen that sort of statement before (rev A).
What did Reviewer C think?
I've never seen a comment like that, either, though it hardly surprises me given the attitude of many of my colleagues.
Thats why I love the peer review process....
Ooh. Reviwer A was a bit nasty! Of course, in grad school, I remember submitting papers where one faculty member would underline some of my phrases and label them "awkward" and another faculty member would label them "wonderful!"
During the summer of 2003 I was walking upstairs after getting a rejection letter from a journal and I was so ticked off by the reviewers that I hurled a chair down the hallway. Luckily it was the summer and no one was there to be injured :-)
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