>Papers from people with no grounding in the subject matter don't get the big journals No! Papers should be judged by their merits, not by their authors. This

>Papers from people with no grounding in the subject matter don't get the big journals No! Papers should be judged by their merits, not by their authors. This is why in many fields, it's customary to send a blinded version of the paper to the peer reviewers, without the author's name or affiliation (this is called double-blind peer review).