tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160573448472385470.post2506463809026787717..comments2023-12-11T10:15:40.943+00:00Comments on BioChemical matters: On the difficulty of finding peer-reviewersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160573448472385470.post-51722863570434638982019-07-03T10:25:25.946+01:002019-07-03T10:25:25.946+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Biosynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726902886879099510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160573448472385470.post-50974364849655104122015-12-14T11:50:52.014+00:002015-12-14T11:50:52.014+00:00That's sounds like a great idea.That's sounds like a great idea. Jan Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08595894308946022740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160573448472385470.post-87954072409468944192015-12-13T19:32:28.699+00:002015-12-13T19:32:28.699+00:00BTW, the Editor interface at PeerJ does not facili...BTW, the Editor interface at PeerJ does not facilitate outright rejection. Editors need to present their case to the Editor-in-Chief (Pete Binfield), who then enables the possibility of "rejecting wothout review". I think this is a good model, as that additional encumbrance likely prevents us from being too prone to reject without review, unlike ACS (and other) journals.PedroShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02404776246982814786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160573448472385470.post-24314426341738980122015-12-13T19:27:31.229+00:002015-12-13T19:27:31.229+00:00"It's a lot of work, though that doesn..."It's a lot of work, though that doesn't necessarily justify what they charge for it. " ... especialy when one considers that many (if not most) academic editors perform their duties pro bono and are not adequately compensated for their time.<br /><br />In my case, I do not mind the work, as I simply consider I am "paying in sweat" for the difference between the actual costs incurred by PeerJ in publishing my papers ( a few hundred dollars per paper) vs. the 299 USD my lifetime-membership in PeerJ cost me. I do wonder, though, how the response-rate of review requests might be improved. I have found that, even when I try to aim at "not-so-senior" people, it is hard to get the emails as many labs do not list the addresses of their post-docs, even when they have >5 yr "independent" research experience.PedroShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02404776246982814786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160573448472385470.post-65938221720743916842015-12-13T19:19:58.780+00:002015-12-13T19:19:58.780+00:00That paper was described a program which performe...That paper was described a program which performed the merging of the coordinates of three molecules into a single coordinate file. It was (to my mind) a trivial change to a program the same authors published last year. I suggested that they submitted it to a journal which published software notes. PedroShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02404776246982814786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160573448472385470.post-28359456005501718362015-12-13T09:03:53.499+00:002015-12-13T09:03:53.499+00:00Happy to hear you have become a PeerJ editor and e...Happy to hear you have become a PeerJ editor and even happier to see that you are blogging about it. In fact you are the only editor that I know to do that. Keep it up!<br /><br />Can you say more about why you out-right rejected the one paper? <br />Jan Jensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08595894308946022740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1160573448472385470.post-8962471919711333842015-12-12T09:13:22.306+00:002015-12-12T09:13:22.306+00:00Having known/worked near publishing editors at mor...Having known/worked near publishing editors at more conventional journals, this doesn't surprise me at all. It's a lot of work, though that doesn't necessarily justify what they charge for it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02723437600664270099noreply@blogger.com