Timeline for Is it a bad idea to submit a paper merely to elicit reviewers' comments?
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| Apr 16, 2013 at 18:03 | answer | added | Manishearth | timeline score: 15 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 16:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/324204575265529856 | ||
| Apr 16, 2013 at 16:38 | comment | added | JeffE | Also, if you work in a field where your advisor is automatically a coauthor, he may simply not want to submit something with his name on it (or publish something with his name on it, if submissions are double-blind) that is not up to his standards. Even if the advisor is not a coauthor, substandard work by his students reflects badly on him. | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 14:37 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | Here's something implicit in several of the answers below, but let me highlight it. The supervisor presumably already has an idea of what's wrong with the paper and how to fix it, in which case the reviewer comments are not needed. Given the amount of time and effort it takes to review a paper, you should ask for reviews only when you feel a paper might plausibly be accepted, or maybe when you fear rejection but can't articulate the reasons or possibilities for improvement. | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 14:24 | answer | added | user102 | timeline score: 45 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 14:11 | comment | added | silvado | If you just care for the comments, send the paper to colleagues and ask them for comments instead of initiating a full-scale review process. | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 14:10 | answer | added | Peter Jansson | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 13:57 | answer | added | Chris Gregg | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 13:39 | history | edited | Bravo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2013 at 13:32 | answer | added | walkmanyi | timeline score: 26 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 13:12 | history | asked | DavideChicco.it | CC BY-SA 3.0 |