>if you're prominent enough in a field to be asked to review papers, There aren't that many prominent people in a given discipline (and some of them do a poor

>if you're prominent enough in a field to be asked to review papers, There aren't that many prominent people in a given discipline (and some of them do a poor job in reviewing anyway - slow, etc). It's quite normal to have a nonprominent person do the reviewing. This is, after all, peer reviewing.