Dear All Occasionally editors do a poor job of managing the review process for a paper submitted to a scientific journal - the number of reviews is inadequate, the reviews themselves seem to be based on biased opinion rather than objective criticism, etc.
This can make it difficult for the paper to get a fair evaluation and/or it can be a misunderstanding by the author of the explicit or cultural scope of the journal A quick google search did not turn up any general guide lines or code of conduct for editors. Can anyone point me to documents that describes the implicit trust, roles and responsibilities in the author-editor-reviewer exchanges. Thanks? Rob Stevenson UMass Boston
