As a social scientist, I keep getting #review invites from one of the most prestigious journals in my field for papers from the natural sciences, i.e. concerning the content of some chemical etc. Anyone who has looked at even a single one of my publications, or my profile on any website, or my CV would know immediately there is no way I can review these papers. So what does this tell about the quality of the #reviewprocess? 🤔
Has anyone else experienced something like this?
@academicchatter

Life's paradox: waiting for months to get reviews of a paper, and receiving them on the week that you cannot possibly do one more thing 😅 #reviewprocess #publication #PublishOrPerish

Today, I took the extra step to write to the editor to tell him that I disagreed with #Reviewer2. The argument was IMO flawed, and I found it unfair that the person could just suggest the authors re-do the analysis with some statistical methods to make it "more novel." I'm not sure if I overstepped my role in the process, but I felt I had to say something.

#ReviewProcess

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