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On the evaluation of work (typically, a publication or grant proposal) by the author's peers. This includes: refereeing, which is often used to determine an academic paper's suitability for publication in a journal or conference; peer evaluation of teaching skills; peer review of research grant proposals; and post-publication review of a book or article, as is common in the field of mathematics.

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I read online that one should wait at least 1.5 months before submitting a revised article. ...

I suspect this may depend on the field. It also depends strongly on the nature of the comments that you received. If the comments are something that are easy to address (adding some refs, clarifying …
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When all the experts of a field collaborate, who peer-reviews the article?

This seems to be a hypothetical scenario. In reality there are always experts that are not on the paper. Take the example posted in the OP. This is a typical review paper produced by a COST action, an …
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What are the ethics of reviewing a paper, spotting issues, not raising them in the review, a...

There is not necessarily anything particularly unethical going on here. Sometimes as a reviewer you will disagree with the arguments/methods/conclusions of a paper you are reviewing without there bein …
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I received a referee report that was not properly redacted

Let it go. They were doing their job. If their commentary was fair there is nothing for you to do here, but forget about the incident. This is a rather explicit case, but in the future there will be m …
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Different results according to the method use

I think you are jumping the gun by thinking about the rebuttal letter. Your first priority here should be thinking about how these new results affect your paper and its conclusions. Rewrite your paper …
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Shall I write a rebuttal letter or just transfer my manuscript? How shall I write the letter?

Rule one of responding to referee reports: Referees misunderstanding your manuscript is a "you problem" not a "referee" problem. If a referee has misunderstood what you wrote, then what you wrote was …
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Should I tell the editor I'm declining a review invitation because the authors are hostile a...

Reviewing is a purely voluntary activity that you are providing for free. In particular by reviewing a work, your are doing both the journal and the authors a favour (regardless whether you recommend …
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Is it OK to provide referees report from round 1 to a new referee in round 2?

It is standard practice that referees of a new round can see all the referee reports of the previous rounds. This includes any new referees in the pool. Without this information it would be hard to un …
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Is it ethical to make an anonymous referee realize we know who he is?

Given your description it sounds like your group actively tried to intimidate the referee with veiled threats of retribution. If this is indeed the case, then, yes, this is extremely unethical behavio …
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Should I be asked to serve as a peer reviewer for other universities' Pre-Proposal Support e...

The odd aspect here, is that this request comes to you from grant support office of the other university, rather than the researchers themselves. It is perfectly normal to ask colleagues at other uni …
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Should a fellowship application justify why the fellowship would be more advantageous than a...

I suspect that the referee wasn't trying to say: "you shouldn't get the 5 year fellowship because it would be better if you had a permanent position" I suspect they were suggesting that the proposal …
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What are good reasons for declining to referee a manuscript that hasn't been posted on arXiv?

(Given that this question was spawned from comments I made elsewhere, I think I should provide an answer, although many of the reasons have already been touched upon.) First context: Physical Review D …
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When and how often is an associate editor not starting review process?

This obviously depends a lot on the journal. I've never heard of an article being not being sent for review for (say) Classical and Quantum Gravity. But in the case of Physical Review Letters, rejecti …
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How to handle conflict between two papers as a referee?

Providing an analytical proof over a numerical one is providing value. Whether this is sufficient for inclusion in conference A, depends on the inclusion criteria. Presumably, the contribution of B to …
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