Tiede edellä

We all love our own data and suffer when incompetent, biased, and hostile peer reviewers (our colleagues = us) don´t recognize the novelty and importance of the work we have invested our resources and hopes. Sometimes it happens that reviewers actually are right and their criticism is (almost) fully warranted, but unfortunately more than often we face comments that genuinely are not justified. Here are the ones I find most annoying. Certainly hope I never get ever caught from using them myself.   -         I did not have time to read it but after the third reminder by the editor I spit out my  ­­ criticism based on the abstract to show that I’m critical -         T hey don’t cite my work  so here is my  punishment,  -         I don’t have time to read this ,  but  authors are not from the field,  so I don’t like it  -    ...