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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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Is it okay to mention we're citing an article only because a reviewer told us to?

To complement the other answers, most of which seem to take as granted the assumption that the reviewer's request is indeed pointless and made by mistake (or possibly to pad their own citation count, …
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How to tell reviewers that I can't update my results

As an addendum to the other answers, I would also suggest including a brief note about the total computing resources (CPU time, RAM, disk space) you've spent on modeling the problem in your paper (and …
Ilmari Karonen's user avatar
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Should I accept review requests from dubious journals?

I'm a graduate student with, so far, one published article in a peer-reviewed journal. Since the article came out, I've been receiving increasing amounts of "academic e-mail spam" from people wanting …
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