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On 30 Aug 2006 15:49:42 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:1156978182.145463.259480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
in sci.lang:
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> Do you have any idea at all what reviewers do? How would
> they "haphazardly change some words"? If the editor knew
> there were "real problems," why did they bother sending
> it out for review at all?
I don't know about other disciplines, but with most of the
math journals with which I've dealt, a submitted paper that
meets the journal's formal requirements automatically goes
to the reviewers, who may then discover that it has real
problems. Granted, the editor probably wasn't aware of them
when he sent it out, but that's because he probably didn't
read the paper in the first place. And it might not have
mattered if he had: the paper might have been well outside
his own areas of expertise.
I don't think that I've ever refereed a paper that didn't
have a single typo or other minor glitch, but had I done so,
and had I felt that the paper was otherwise suitable for the
journal in question, I'd have been happy to say simply 'This
is excellent; by all means accept it'.
Brian
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