Timeline for Is it ethical to re-submit a manuscript without addressing comments from a particular reviewer while asking the editor to exclude them?
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| Jul 14, 2023 at 18:01 | comment | added | Dikran Marsupial | In short, both editors and reviewers sometimes fail to do a good job. I published the paper elsewhere. It is however absolutely reason to seriously question whether "you don't have a very strong case for publication."! | |
| Jul 14, 2023 at 18:00 | comment | added | Dikran Marsupial | "If you can't clearly refute those comments to the satisfaction of an editor you don't have a very strong case for publication." personal experience tells me that is not always the case. I had a paper rejected once because the reviewer claimed that the complexity was O(n^4), rather than O(N^3). I updated the paper to spell it out in pseudocode with three nested loops containing only scalar mathematics, but the editor still rejected it because the reviewer was very eminent. As it happens I was adapting something from another field where it had been used for years without controversy. | |
| Jul 13, 2023 at 11:12 | comment | added | Andy W | +1, For anecdote I have had two cases where it was helpful. One was from exhaustion (4 different journals, same negative reviewer), I pre-emptively gave all the back and forth to editor at the 5th, asked them to make judgement themselves and not send it to that specific person (they obliged). Another example I just articulated a conflict of interest to the editor, and asked to send to the conflicted reviewers first degree connections who I suspected would be less biased (so not avoiding altogether). Agree it is not a strategy to use often though! | |
| Jul 12, 2023 at 11:41 | history | answered | Buffy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |