Timeline for What annoys reviewers more: Missing information or a paper that is too long? (STEM-related field)
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| Oct 1 at 16:07 | comment | added | Vosoni | You should be extremely critical (to yourself) and ask, which "missing details" are essential for understanding your ideas -- these should stay in the paper, which are just necessary for a critical reviewer/reader to verify the validity of your methods (these can go to the supplemental material or into the addendum), and which can be skipped altogether. There is always an infinite amount of details about every paper that no one is interested in, so some reasonable cutoff is certainly needed. The paper should be not only valid but also interesting to read. | |
| Oct 1 at 15:45 | comment | added | zx-81 | thanks, this is helpful information. "vacuous, meaning too long for the information it contains. At the same time, there are excellent papers that are long because they need to be" yes, this is exactly the point. | |
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| S Oct 1 at 13:55 | history | answered | Vosoni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |