Re: Date limit set on first Americans

On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 16:29:31 +0100, Peter Ashby
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Eric Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I agree. I don't really want to start a long discussion on possible
>> problems of the peer review process but being able to nominate
>> reviewers has the potential problem of developing a clique of mutually
>> sympathetic authors/researchers. I don't really see that as a problem
>> in your field as truth will out reasonably quickly but years ago, for
>> my sins, I studied psychology and I noted exactly this problem. 
>
>Different journals have different policies on the matter. The journal I 
>submitted to openly solicits suggestions for reviewers. However they are 
>under no obligation to agree.

That's interesting. The journals with which I am most familiar are in
the field of engineering science. The usual practice is to have an
editorial board and in the first instance the editor or the editorial
board itself will decide which of the board members are the most
appropriate to review a paper. On rare occasions the board may decide
to coopt an outside specialist. I suppose there is nothing to stop
them asking the author but I have never heard of them doing it.



Eric Stevens