I was assigned as a reviewer for a journal paper by my boss during internship. It is a middle/low rank journal so I generally don't expect much from the assigned papers. I have so far reviewed 3 papers for this journal. Paper reviews and quality of men, those two terms never seem to be connected in my mind, until the moment I finished reviewing the third paper assignment today. A bridge across the two terms gently forms, out of the anger of being pissed off by those papers.
I summarized the major problems of those papers: 1) Pretend to be big and complicated. Paper A has no structure, but full of complicated equations copied from a physics book, and nothing else. It reminds me of baking dogs, voice represents the fear. 2) Non understandable English. Yes, it is not a top journal, but it is still an "English" journal. Please write in English! 3) Quoting others as theirs. Paper B has a total of 16 pages, with only 0.5 page of its own contribution (nothing new), other parts are all quotes, no wonder the language of this paper is understandable. I would say, it's really a waste of paper! Please save the earth! There was no joy in the reviewing process, however, it certainly broadened my eyes on how ugly research work can be done.
Those are not technical problems at all, but attitude's problem. In other words, it's personality problem. How can a responsible person send out a non understandable paper without grammar checks? How can an honest person take other people's work as theirs? Those personality problems lie in women too. However, people usually don't judge women by how great her career is, but how many children she has, how good is her family. So they have a backup not to be accused of. But how about those "career oriented" men? They even don't have serious attitude towards work, not to mention how far they can go on the career path. Thinking deeper, Does he possibly have a girlfriend/wife? Can one expect him to be responsible if he accidentally makes his girlfriend pregnant? Can he be honest about himself while dating? Now I understand why so many women can't find their Mr. Right. Because there are so many Mr. Irresponsible and Mr. Dishonest out there.
I summarized the major problems of those papers: 1) Pretend to be big and complicated. Paper A has no structure, but full of complicated equations copied from a physics book, and nothing else. It reminds me of baking dogs, voice represents the fear. 2) Non understandable English. Yes, it is not a top journal, but it is still an "English" journal. Please write in English! 3) Quoting others as theirs. Paper B has a total of 16 pages, with only 0.5 page of its own contribution (nothing new), other parts are all quotes, no wonder the language of this paper is understandable. I would say, it's really a waste of paper! Please save the earth! There was no joy in the reviewing process, however, it certainly broadened my eyes on how ugly research work can be done.
Those are not technical problems at all, but attitude's problem. In other words, it's personality problem. How can a responsible person send out a non understandable paper without grammar checks? How can an honest person take other people's work as theirs? Those personality problems lie in women too. However, people usually don't judge women by how great her career is, but how many children she has, how good is her family. So they have a backup not to be accused of. But how about those "career oriented" men? They even don't have serious attitude towards work, not to mention how far they can go on the career path. Thinking deeper, Does he possibly have a girlfriend/wife? Can one expect him to be responsible if he accidentally makes his girlfriend pregnant? Can he be honest about himself while dating? Now I understand why so many women can't find their Mr. Right. Because there are so many Mr. Irresponsible and Mr. Dishonest out there.
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