In the top information systems journals it has been said that reviewers reject everything. Why is that? Well, I guess they have an idealized version of a top paper and nothing lives up to it. Or maybe, they think they will be judged as being a soft reviewer if they accept it. What it results in is virtually everything gets rejected and it might take a supportive associate editor in the end to overturn the reviewers. Hence, submitting papers to leading journals can hardly be a called a pleasurable experience because it invariably ends in rejection sometimes after several rounds of review.
It is easy to point the finger at reviewers but those reviewers are in fact us!
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Hum... intriguing comment about fearing being judged as a soft reviewer. Do you really think so?
ReplyDeleteYes, it very common, especially for highly ranked journals. For example, I heard that one reviewer had never accepted any papers all the time he reviewed.
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