by jordicabot | Jun 1, 2011 | evaluating research, Research Rants
(before you think this can’t happen please read this story of my former colleague Steve Easterbrook) Everybody can make mistakes and this includes messing up the reviews and uploading the wrong review to the submission system. In some conferences, you are...
by jordicabot | May 25, 2011 | evaluating research, Research Rants
Author submits journal version 1 Editor+Reviewer finish review and complain about aspects A, B and C Author prepares new version addressing A,B and C Editor+Reviewer finish second review and now complain about aspects D, E and F (completely unrelated to A, B and C)....
by jordicabot | Nov 13, 2014 | publishing, Research Rants
The other day we tried to submit a journal paper summarizing the PhD work of one of my students. He had published a couple of conference papers and one workshop paper covering specific parts of his work and, after the PhD, he wanted to write a journal paper presenting...
by jordicabot | Aug 23, 2011 | Research Rants, Uncategorized
Having a bad review experience (like this bad reviewing patterns ) is always upsetting but for phd students it can be really disheartening since probably that paper had been his only focus for some months. When this happens I try to explain them that 1 – this is...
