Can you believe this is the fifth year of Peer Review Week?!
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‘Quality in Peer Review’
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What’s the best (or worst) review you’ve ever received? And why
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"This work is likely to prove seminal, although little science may result"... I guess that was best and worst in one??
It's so contradictory and confusing!
The quality of a review processes depends mostly on the competence of the reviewer/referee. Few competent people bother to find the time to be a reviewer. The net result is that the referee are often of limited experience of knowledge, which translate in reviews that are either too superficial/sloppy, or too picky on useless points. My best experience: writing the review for Nature Astronomy and having the editor contributing with his expertise to the draft.