Dear All,
I agree completely with Kevin that reviewers should sign their review.
That's what I started to do and I will not make any reviews for journals
that insist that I stay anonymous. From my point of view the problem is
that some colleagues hide in anonymity and provide reviews that are not
adequate (e.g. impolite, unsubstantiated criticism). Another problem in
this context are the editors. I think it is their responsibility to
check if a review is adequate. However, my experience is rather that
most editors just pass the review to me and I just wonder what kind of
reviews I receive. In many cases there is absolutely no quality control
regarding the reviews. From many journals I also never get a feedback
about my review, nor do I receive the reports of the other reviewers.
This makes it impossible for me to evaluate if my review was in
concordance with the other reviewers.
Regarding the anonymity of the author, I think both sides (author and
reviewer) should be named, the system should be as transparent as
possible. Unfortunately, it is currently not transparent at all.
Cheers,
Marc
Kevin Murray wrote:
Off the point here, but I think that the anonymity should be reversed.
Authors should be anonymous and reviewers should be named.
Start a peer review revolution...sign all of your reviews!!!
Regarding YOUR own reviews. It seems that, if they are anonymous, then
posting should be ok. If the reviewer is named, however, you should not
post. No laws or moral values were consulted in regards to this email.
KLM
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <greenb...@ucdavis.edu>wrote:
Interesting -- I'm primarily interested in reviews YOU receive on your
own submitted manuscript (which, 99% of the time, you don't know who
they are from) -- are you allowed to post these in any public forum?
Since the reviews cannot be linked back to an individual (unless that
individual steps forward and takes credit for it), and it is a
criticism of your own work, it seems like one should feel free to post
these if you want. I was interested in compiling the types of reviews
people get on manuscripts for teaching purposes, so I'm trying to find
out if its legit for people to share these reviews with me if they end
up going out into the public (e.g. on a website)?
--j
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Interesting -- I'm primarily interested in reviews YOU receive on your
own submitted manuscript (which, 99% of the time, you don't know who
they are from) -- are you allowed to post these in any public forum?
Since the reviews cannot be linked back to an individual (unless that
individual steps forward and takes credit for it), and it is a
criticism of your own work, it seems like one should feel free to post
these if you want. I was interested in compiling the types of reviews
people get on manuscripts for teaching purposes, so I'm trying to find
out if its legit for people to share these reviews with me if they end
up going out into the public (e.g. on a website)?
--j
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Christopher Brown <cabr...@tntech.edu>
wrote:
Jonathan,
As it so happens, a message close to yours in my email folder was from a
review I did for American Naturalist. As part of the message from the
editor is the line "Please keep all reviews, including your own,
confidential." Thus, at least for Am Nat, it appears that the reviews
should remain unpublished in any form.
CAB
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Chris Brown
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biology, Box 5063
Tennessee Tech University
Cookeville, TN 38505
email: cabr...@tntech.edu
website: iweb.tntech.edu/cabrown
-----Original Message-----
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
[mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:48 PM
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous?
Quick question that came up recently that I was curious about -- I know
REVIEWERS are anonymous, but are the reviews you get supposed to be
anonymous, or can they be posted in a public forum?
--j
