News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why isn't preprint review being adopted?. Parent comment

Re:Why isn't preprint review being adopted? by Muller20 on Sunday March 24, 2024 @03:27PM (#39809609)
Peer review goes beyond simple issues about clarity or misunderstanding. In particular, peer review is sometimes seen as an adversarial process.

Often, the reviewer will not understand because he is not the intended audience. Other times, he will understand but he just doesn't like your method, because he is working in an opposite direction. Or maybe your method is a direct competitor of his and yours work better, which incentivizes some people to block your work.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why isn't preprint review being adopted? by wrycoder on Sunday March 24, 2024 @03:59PM (#39809941)
Or your paper goes against the current paradigm or is otherwise politically unpalatable.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why isn't preprint review being adopted? by anticensor on Monday March 25, 2024 @12:08AM (#39812790)
> Other times, he will understand but he just doesn't like your method, because he is working in an opposite direction. Or maybe your method is a direct competitor of his and yours work better, which incentivizes some people to block your work.

Oh you mean those phantom "off topic"/"out of scope" reviews.

[ Parent | on HN ]