[ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous?

2010-03-05 Thread David Anderson
Another problem with the review process is that often a reviewer or associate editor will be considered sufficient authority to provide objective and accurate comments on a manuscript, yet often this is not the case. They may be much less familiar with the material and its larger context

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2010-03-04 Thread david alonso
Dear David, To write a critic to paper is what we did in: D. Alonso and M. Pascual (2006). A keystone mutualism drives pattern in a power function. Technical Comment. *Science, 313*: 1739b J. Chave, D. Alonso and R. S. Etienne (2006). Comparing models of species abundance. *Nature, 441*: E1-E2*.

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2010-03-03 Thread Wayne Tyson
that is demonstrably of concern to researchers in ecology. Perhaps I should have submitted them anonymously? WT - Original Message - From: William Silvert cien...@silvert.org To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous

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2010-03-03 Thread david alonso
...@ucdavis.edu To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Wow, I clearly hit on a painful topic here! I've been getting asked on-list and off- to clarify, a bit, why I might want to do what my original question

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2010-03-03 Thread William Silvert
Março de 2010 23:00 Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? As an editor of a journal I have been surprised to find only a single time in five years that a review was possibly unfair, and that one was unfairly positive. It has been refreshing to find that most people review manuscripts

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2010-03-03 Thread David L. McNeely
david alonso vankampe...@gmail.com wrote: stuff cut So as a reviewer, if you want to publish your own review reports once the original paper has been published, since, as Hal said, the reviews are copy-right materials by their own authors by default, you should be allowed to do it.

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2010-03-03 Thread Lonnie Aarssen
: iweb.tntech.edu/cabrown -Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:48 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Quick question

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2010-03-02 Thread Marc Kochzius
01, 2010 12:48 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Quick question that came up recently that I was curious about -- I know REVIEWERS are anonymous, but are the reviews you get supposed to be anonymous, or can they be posted in a public forum? --j

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2010-03-02 Thread Wayne Tyson
Gilmore - Original Message - From: Jonathan Greenberg greenb...@ucdavis.edu To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:48 AM Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Quick question that came up recently that I was curious about -- I know REVIEWERS are anonymous

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2010-03-02 Thread M. Murphy
-bremen.de Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:44:59 To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Dear All, I agree completely with Kevin that reviewers should sign their review. That's what I started to do and I will not make any reviews for journals that insist

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2010-03-02 Thread Nitin Sekar
- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:48 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Quick question that came up recently that I was curious

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2010-03-02 Thread Frank Marenghi
Annapolis, MD 21401 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:12:57 -0500 From: hcasw...@whoi.edu Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Surprisingly enough, those reviews are copyrighted by their authors, automatically, even though the authors are anonymous. So

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2010-03-02 Thread James Crants
: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:48 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Quick question that came up recently that I was curious about -- I know REVIEWERS are anonymous

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2010-03-02 Thread Randy Bangert
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Quick question that came up recently that I was curious about -- I know REVIEWERS are anonymous, but are the reviews you get supposed to be anonymous, or can they be posted in a public forum? --j

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2010-03-02 Thread Jason Jackson
: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Surprisingly enough, those reviews are copyrighted by their authors, automatically, even though the authors are anonymous. So, you can't publish them. You could assign them to a class in the same way you could assign other copyrighted

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2010-03-02 Thread Murray Efford
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of James Crants [jcra...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 3 March 2010 5:39 a.m. To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? On the other hand, if the reviewers

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2010-03-02 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
. To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? On the other hand, if the reviewers are anonymous, the authors should be, too.  I think transparency is a bad thing, in this case; I think reviews should be double-blind. While reviewer anonymity allows reviewers

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2010-03-02 Thread William Silvert
original data, and novel interpretations are not good science. I reserve the right to protest. Bill Silvert - Original Message - From: Jonathan Greenberg greenb...@ucdavis.edu To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: segunda-feira, 1 de Março de 2010 23:09 Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews

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2010-03-02 Thread William Silvert
...@ucdavis.edu To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: terça-feira, 2 de Março de 2010 21:40 Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? I want to clarify a point: I don't mean that a bad review is one in which your paper is rejected, a bad review I define a bad review as one that does little

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2010-03-02 Thread William Silvert
: Christopher Brown cabr...@tntech.edu To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU 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

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2010-03-02 Thread Ned Dochtermann
www.unr.nevada.edu/~dochterm/ -- -Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:40 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Wow, I clearly

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2010-03-02 Thread malcolm McCallum
2010 5:39 a.m. To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? On the other hand, if the reviewers are anonymous, the authors should be, too. I think transparency is a bad thing, in this case; I think reviews should be double-blind. While reviewer anonymity

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2010-03-02 Thread William Silvert
Silvert - Original Message - From: Murray Efford murray.eff...@otago.ac.nz To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: terça-feira, 2 de Março de 2010 20:02 Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? James Crants has it right. I recently wrote a harsh review of a poor paper by a high-profile

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2010-03-02 Thread Wayne Tyson
in England, Take Courage! WT - Original Message - From: Jonathan Greenberg greenb...@ucdavis.edu To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Wow, I clearly hit on a painful topic here! I've been getting asked

[ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous?

2010-03-01 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Quick question that came up recently that I was curious about -- I know REVIEWERS are anonymous, but are the reviews you get supposed to be anonymous, or can they be posted in a public forum? --j

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2010-03-01 Thread Christopher Brown
of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:48 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Quick question that came up recently that I was curious about -- I know REVIEWERS

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2010-03-01 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
-Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:48 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Quick question that came up recently

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2010-03-01 Thread Kevin Murray
: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ecolo...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:48 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Quick question that came up recently that I was curious about -- I know REVIEWERS

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2010-03-01 Thread Hal Caswell
...@listserv.umd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Greenberg Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:48 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Are reviews anonymous? Quick question that came up recently that I was curious about -- I know REVIEWERS are anonymous, but are the reviews you get supposed