I would hardly recommend following Am Nat for reviewing policy. Although
much of my work would fit there, I am not one of their crowd and got badly
burnt the one time I submitted to them. After months of wating for a
response, and sending unanswered letters, I charged into the editorial
offices and confronted the editor, who blandly explained that a member of
their editorial board had a student working on the same problem and had
asked to have the paper held until the student had finished. Of course I
withdrew the paper and had no problem publishing it elsewhere.
This was a long time ago and I hope that their policy has changed (the
editor explained that they strongly support their editorial board), but
there are several journals that have a clique of regular authors, and these
should be avoided like the plague.
Bill Silvert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Brown" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: segunda-feira, 1 de Março de 2010 22:16
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous?
Jonathan,
As it so happens, a message close to yours in my email folder was from a
review I did for American Naturalist. As part of the message from the
editor is the line "Please keep all reviews, including your own,
confidential." Thus, at least for Am Nat, it appears that the reviews
should remain unpublished in any form.
