Timeline for As a reviewer, should I act when the second reviewer did not seem to review the manuscript carefully?
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| Jan 13, 2021 at 13:30 | comment | added | sophar | Follow-up: I approached the editor in a separate message, and he told me he's usually compensating for bad reviews by reading the paper more carefully himself. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 9:23 | comment | added | Alchimista | Basically your review should account for this. Obviously you can't spot troubles with review B that you haven't already spoke out in your review. Far from perfection, but that's why there are at least two referees for serious publications. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 8:23 | comment | added | sophar | I agree that it is neither my job nor my responsibility to judge on other reviews. I am convinced that the editor is also aware of the issue (because reviewer #2 only wrote that the paper is well written). Perhaps I also feel even more responsible for the quality of the article because my name and reviews are published with the article, whereas Reviewer #2 has chosen to remain anonymous. The authors have for the most part responded to my criticisms, but we all have our blind spots. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1349189513927602181 | ||
| Jan 13, 2021 at 0:27 | answer | added | Allure | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 20:34 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 12, 2021 at 17:12 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @AzorAhai-him- Perhaps you did a good job :-) | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 15:44 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @CaptainEmacs Interesting, I haven't ever received comments on my review (although I've only done a handful) | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 15:39 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @AzorAhai-him- I saw the comments, they were visible to the other reviewers. That was probably good, because I wrote several pages and that reviewer hardly a paragraph, with a very decisive opinion opposite of mine. I would probably have felt a tinge of my time being not properly appreciated if I hadn't seen the editor take action. Imagine that reviewer's suggestion being followed without comment? | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 15:25 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @CaptainEmacs How did you know they were chastised? | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 15:16 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | Strictly spoken, it's not your job, but the editor's. I remember writing detailed reviews when my co-reviewers wrote very shallow ones with the opposite opinion. They were chastised by the editor. You may consider highlighting it to the editor so that their attention is directed to the matter and not by chance overseen. | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 12:37 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 12:36 | answer | added | Coder | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jan 12, 2021 at 12:29 | history | asked | sophar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |