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Pointing to problems without suggesting solutions
Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30pm US/Eastern)
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Unicorn Meta Zoo #1: Why another podcast?Handling unsolicited proofs of famous mathematical problemsSuggesting an alternative to referee/reviewer recommendationHow should I handle poor English in reviewing an article that claims to be proofread by two native English speakers?How to React to Incorrect Claims by Reviewers?How to deal with poorly written and formatted papers (as a reviewer)?Published papers with incorrect solutions of famous problems: how to raise concerns with editors?Suggesting connection to one's own paper in a referee reportSuggesting reviewers for a very sectorial double-blind submissionArticle submitted and clearly referee cannot understand basic premise-What to do?Suggesting Reviewers: How to find institutional affiliations
As a peer reviewer, I sometimes feel there are issues in the manuscript but I'm not sure how they should be corrected/addressed, partly due to my inadequate expertise in those exact issues.
I also sometimes find some words/terms are incorrectly used, but as a non-native speaker I can't easily suggest alternatives.
Should I just point to such issues anyway, or ignore them since I couldn't suggest solutions?
peer-review
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As a peer reviewer, I sometimes feel there are issues in the manuscript but I'm not sure how they should be corrected/addressed, partly due to my inadequate expertise in those exact issues.
I also sometimes find some words/terms are incorrectly used, but as a non-native speaker I can't easily suggest alternatives.
Should I just point to such issues anyway, or ignore them since I couldn't suggest solutions?
peer-review
asked 3 hours ago
OrionOrion
2,56212542
1
If it ends us as a major revision that comes back to you with changes addressing your issues in some way, how would you decide if they have done so sufficiently?
– A Simple Algorithm
3 hours ago
1
@ASimpleAlgorithm perhaps that is why some papers have more than one review cycle...
– Solar Mike
2 hours ago
2
@ASimpleAlgorithm It is much easier to check that a proposed solution is correct, than to come up with it in the first place.
– Federico Poloni
2 hours ago
@FedericoPoloni that isn't universally true. For example, the proposed solution may be wrong (hence there are very many extremely easy options) whereas the problem of determining if it is correct may be ill-posed or intractable. But my question wasn't necessarily rhetorical. In the kinds of problems you are thinking of, that knowledge of how to determine if a solution is correct can be used to provide guidance or requirements for the authors then when asking for revisions, rather than simply pointing out a shortcoming.
– A Simple Algorithm
1 hour ago
@FedericoPoloni This is basically what the P vs NP problem in computer science is about. :)
– David Richerby
2 mins ago
add a comment |
As a peer reviewer, I sometimes feel there are issues in the manuscript but I'm not sure how they should be corrected/addressed, partly due to my inadequate expertise in those exact issues.
I also sometimes find some words/terms are incorrectly used, but as a non-native speaker I can't easily suggest alternatives.
Should I just point to such issues anyway, or ignore them since I couldn't suggest solutions?
peer-review
asked 3 hours ago
OrionOrion
2,56212542
As a peer reviewer, I sometimes feel there are issues in the manuscript but I'm not sure how they should be corrected/addressed, partly due to my inadequate expertise in those exact issues.
I also sometimes find some words/terms are incorrectly used, but as a non-native speaker I can't easily suggest alternatives.
Should I just point to such issues anyway, or ignore them since I couldn't suggest solutions?
peer-review
peer-review
asked 3 hours ago
OrionOrion
2,56212542
asked 3 hours ago
OrionOrion
2,56212542
asked 3 hours ago
OrionOrion
2,56212542
asked 3 hours ago
OrionOrion
2,56212542
asked 3 hours ago
OrionOrion
2,56212542
2,56212542
1
If it ends us as a major revision that comes back to you with changes addressing your issues in some way, how would you decide if they have done so sufficiently?
– A Simple Algorithm
3 hours ago
1
@ASimpleAlgorithm perhaps that is why some papers have more than one review cycle...
– Solar Mike
2 hours ago
2
@ASimpleAlgorithm It is much easier to check that a proposed solution is correct, than to come up with it in the first place.
– Federico Poloni
2 hours ago
@FedericoPoloni that isn't universally true. For example, the proposed solution may be wrong (hence there are very many extremely easy options) whereas the problem of determining if it is correct may be ill-posed or intractable. But my question wasn't necessarily rhetorical. In the kinds of problems you are thinking of, that knowledge of how to determine if a solution is correct can be used to provide guidance or requirements for the authors then when asking for revisions, rather than simply pointing out a shortcoming.
– A Simple Algorithm
1 hour ago
@FedericoPoloni This is basically what the P vs NP problem in computer science is about. :)
– David Richerby
2 mins ago
add a comment |
1
If it ends us as a major revision that comes back to you with changes addressing your issues in some way, how would you decide if they have done so sufficiently?
– A Simple Algorithm
3 hours ago
1
@ASimpleAlgorithm perhaps that is why some papers have more than one review cycle...
– Solar Mike
2 hours ago
2
@ASimpleAlgorithm It is much easier to check that a proposed solution is correct, than to come up with it in the first place.
– Federico Poloni
2 hours ago
@FedericoPoloni that isn't universally true. For example, the proposed solution may be wrong (hence there are very many extremely easy options) whereas the problem of determining if it is correct may be ill-posed or intractable. But my question wasn't necessarily rhetorical. In the kinds of problems you are thinking of, that knowledge of how to determine if a solution is correct can be used to provide guidance or requirements for the authors then when asking for revisions, rather than simply pointing out a shortcoming.
– A Simple Algorithm
1 hour ago
@FedericoPoloni This is basically what the P vs NP problem in computer science is about. :)
– David Richerby
2 mins ago
1
1
If it ends us as a major revision that comes back to you with changes addressing your issues in some way, how would you decide if they have done so sufficiently?
– A Simple Algorithm
3 hours ago
If it ends us as a major revision that comes back to you with changes addressing your issues in some way, how would you decide if they have done so sufficiently?
– A Simple Algorithm
3 hours ago
1
1
@ASimpleAlgorithm perhaps that is why some papers have more than one review cycle...
– Solar Mike
2 hours ago
@ASimpleAlgorithm perhaps that is why some papers have more than one review cycle...
– Solar Mike
2 hours ago
2
2
@ASimpleAlgorithm It is much easier to check that a proposed solution is correct, than to come up with it in the first place.
– Federico Poloni
2 hours ago
@ASimpleAlgorithm It is much easier to check that a proposed solution is correct, than to come up with it in the first place.
– Federico Poloni
2 hours ago
@FedericoPoloni that isn't universally true. For example, the proposed solution may be wrong (hence there are very many extremely easy options) whereas the problem of determining if it is correct may be ill-posed or intractable. But my question wasn't necessarily rhetorical. In the kinds of problems you are thinking of, that knowledge of how to determine if a solution is correct can be used to provide guidance or requirements for the authors then when asking for revisions, rather than simply pointing out a shortcoming.
– A Simple Algorithm
1 hour ago
@FedericoPoloni that isn't universally true. For example, the proposed solution may be wrong (hence there are very many extremely easy options) whereas the problem of determining if it is correct may be ill-posed or intractable. But my question wasn't necessarily rhetorical. In the kinds of problems you are thinking of, that knowledge of how to determine if a solution is correct can be used to provide guidance or requirements for the authors then when asking for revisions, rather than simply pointing out a shortcoming.
– A Simple Algorithm
1 hour ago
@FedericoPoloni This is basically what the P vs NP problem in computer science is about. :)
– David Richerby
2 mins ago
@FedericoPoloni This is basically what the P vs NP problem in computer science is about. :)
– David Richerby
2 mins ago
add a comment |
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Does "peer review" mean you have to re-write the material, or just point out where the flaws may be and the author is meant to sort them?
I suggest it is the latter, so point them out and expect the author to edit / correct or justify what they meant.
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Does "peer review" mean you have to re-write the material, or just point out where the flaws may be and the author is meant to sort them?
I suggest it is the latter, so point them out and expect the author to edit / correct or justify what they meant.
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Does "peer review" mean you have to re-write the material, or just point out where the flaws may be and the author is meant to sort them?
I suggest it is the latter, so point them out and expect the author to edit / correct or justify what they meant.
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Does "peer review" mean you have to re-write the material, or just point out where the flaws may be and the author is meant to sort them?
I suggest it is the latter, so point them out and expect the author to edit / correct or justify what they meant.
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Does "peer review" mean you have to re-write the material, or just point out where the flaws may be and the author is meant to sort them?
I suggest it is the latter, so point them out and expect the author to edit / correct or justify what they meant.
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If it ends us as a major revision that comes back to you with changes addressing your issues in some way, how would you decide if they have done so sufficiently?
– A Simple Algorithm
3 hours ago
1
@ASimpleAlgorithm perhaps that is why some papers have more than one review cycle...
– Solar Mike
2 hours ago
2
@ASimpleAlgorithm It is much easier to check that a proposed solution is correct, than to come up with it in the first place.
– Federico Poloni
2 hours ago
@FedericoPoloni that isn't universally true. For example, the proposed solution may be wrong (hence there are very many extremely easy options) whereas the problem of determining if it is correct may be ill-posed or intractable. But my question wasn't necessarily rhetorical. In the kinds of problems you are thinking of, that knowledge of how to determine if a solution is correct can be used to provide guidance or requirements for the authors then when asking for revisions, rather than simply pointing out a shortcoming.
– A Simple Algorithm
1 hour ago
@FedericoPoloni This is basically what the P vs NP problem in computer science is about. :)
– David Richerby
2 mins ago