Ali is absolutely right.
The problem is the editors in the first place.
If they don't "edit", then why are they called "editors"?
It would serve them right, if they were replaced by software.
I've ranted quite a bit about this and related subjects in IEEE forae
(namely, because the mere lack of spell checking or basic grammar in
tons of published papers... I've actually read a paper by PhD candidates
from the University of Hong Hong: yeah... they can't even spell their
University's designation!)
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Best regards,
Carlos
On 2015-03-31 10:48, Ali Ilhan wrote:
> Dear Terry,
>
>
>
> More often than not, the problems in the peer review system stem from
> the
> journal editors and conference organizers, not the reviewers
> themselves.
> This is why, in more established journals, papers typically go to more
> than
> two reviewers, and some times up to six or more. It is the editor’s and
> co-editors’ job to weed through reviews and sometimes to literally edit
> them.
>
>
>
> I am not trying to say that the system is without problems but showing
> its
> deficiencies in the way SCIgen does is a bit of a straw man argument. I
> think we would be more productive if we focus on the structural issues
> of
> the whole system such as the journal and conference inflation, pressure
> to
> publish more and more, labor market pressures (e.g. decreasing numbers
> of
> tenure track jobs) etc.
>
>
>
> Warm Regards,
>
>
>
> Ali O. Ilhan, PhD
>
> On 31 March 2015 at 04:41, Filippo Salustri <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 30 March 2015 at 21:04, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > It is widely known to those involved in publishing design research papers
>> > in
>> > journals and conferences that there are informal lists of good and bad
>> > reviewers circulating amongs organisers. Perhaps we need to make this
>> more
>> > transparenent and create a formal competence assessment of 'ability to
>> > review' for academics and other researchers?
>> >
>>
>> I'd be in favour of that. Not sure how it could be implemented, but
>> I'd
>> help design it if it came to that.
>>
>> \V/_ /fas
>>
>> *Prof. Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.*
>> Email: [log in to unmask]
>> http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/
>>
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