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Journals can reject a paper on editorial grounds – for example, Nature doesn't publish every valid paper submitted to it.
by muglug 7y ago
Journals can reject a paper on editorial grounds – for example, Nature doesn't publish every valid paper submitted to it.
- pron 7y agoTrue, but it is not the role of peer-review as a whole to prevent papers with whose premise you can argue from being published anywhere. The goal of peer-review is to filter out papers that use bad methodology. Debates over premises is carried out in other papers.