[Coral-List] do famous authors' names get better reviews? Also, critical comment publications

[tomascik at novuscom.net]

Thanks for the links Doug. I tried to submit a rebuttal to a paper 
published in the Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (a 
Springer publication) and was told that their contract with Springer 
does not allow them to publish rebuttals to papers they publish. The 
paper in question documented a 35% reduction in the coral reef footprint 
on St. Martin's Island, Bangladesh, as a result of uncontrolled tourism. 
The problem with the paper is that there are no coral reefs present on 
St. martin's Island. The authors have no clue what is a coral reef, and 
what they described where changes in intertidal algal communities over 
time. The danger of publishing papers with these types of serious errors 
is that they provide wrong information to decision makers that will have 
serious unintended consequences.
My e-mails to the journal's editorial board now go unanswered.

Cheers,
Tom


On 2022-09-14 12:05 pm, Douglas Fenner via Coral-List wrote:
> This is relevant to both our society (ICRS) journal, "Coral Reefs" and 
> to
> other journals that publish articles on coral reefs, of which there are
> many.  Thus, they are highly relevant to the study of coral reefs.
> 
> Reviewers award higher marks when a paper's author is famous.
> 
> https://www.science.org/content/article/reviewers-award-higher-marks-when-paper-s-author-famous
> 
> You've spotted a flaw in a top journal's paper.  Good luck getting your
> critique published.
> 
> 
> https://www.science.org/content/article/you-ve-spotted-flaw-top-journal-s-paper-good-luck-getting-your-critique-published
> .
> 
> Both of these are open-access, popular articles.
> 
> 
> Cheers,  Doug
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