Re:Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer revie...
by glofish on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:16AM
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I think this is the best point here.
Reviewing is hard work with very few rewards - and you have to decide at the start whether it is worth your time to embark on it. Ideally we would like to learn something from the paper.
I and most people here would most likely strongly prefer to review a paper written by someone good at what they do.
In reality most papers are pretty bad - thus when we prefer reviewing papers written by Nobel prize winners we are not "biased" and "humbly bowing" before their greatness - we are just trying to make it worth our while.
Reviewing is hard work with very few rewards - and you have to decide at the start whether it is worth your time to embark on it. Ideally we would like to learn something from the paper.
I and most people here would most likely strongly prefer to review a paper written by someone good at what they do.
In reality most papers are pretty bad - thus when we prefer reviewing papers written by Nobel prize winners we are not "biased" and "humbly bowing" before their greatness - we are just trying to make it worth our while.