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The review process at the "prestige" journals in many disciplines is garbage. This is a known issue. Competent experts simply don't have time to do the reviews,
by anbende 9y ago
The review process at the "prestige" journals in many disciplines is garbage. This is a known issue. Competent experts simply don't have time to do the reviews, so they end up being farmed out to graduate students and post-docs if they get done at all. I had one paper get rejected, because they couldn't find anyone to review it! By the time a reviewer is found, you're often the action-editor's last desperate pool of 5th-tier people who are sort of maybe vaguely related to the topic area.
Add to that that the majority of papers in many disciplines receive virtually zero statistical oversight from an actual statistical expert, and... well... you begin to wonder what service the existing journals are actually adding. Marketing and sales?
- cosmic_ape 9y agoI know that in some journals it is good some of the time. But yeah, didn't mean to imply thats always good. Maybe we should introduce a process of reviewing the reviews, and some incentives accordingly. Not sure how to do that.
- aldanor 9y agoAn example - as a 1st year grad student, I had to review a number of articles in 'top-ranked' journals, just because my supervisor preferred to dump it on me rather than bother to do it himself...