Re: Ba`i Review cu?a TS Nguyen Xuan Tuyen

["Diem Quynh Nguyen" <diemquynhng@hotmail.com>]

>Hi anh AiViet, Zung et al,
>
>	I do not know much about the content of the review 
>article, however, having read your comments on the review 
>process, I would like to make a number of comments as follows:
>
>>   To tell the truth I don't like the review neither. The review has
>>the choice to refuse to review a paper. In any case, the paper
>>has been published. At least the referee agree with the guy and the 
>>journal is recognised by the Math.Rev. 
>
>	The decicion to publish a paper is MAINLY made by the 
>journal editor(s). Comments from referees are usually, but 
>not always, taken into account in the decision.
>
>
>>I don't agree with your opinion. I think that a good review is the one
>>which gives useful information about the paper so that the reader may 
decide
>>wether to read the paper or not. 
>
>	Totally agreed!
>
>>When reviewing something, I think it is good to be frank. 
>
>	This is the way it should be. But, words can be 
>bended/twisted, you know :))
>
>
>>When you say "at least the referee agrees with the guy .." perhaps you
>>don't realize the situation in Russia, where there's a lot of 
politicking in 
>>publishing papers - it is not unusual that bad papers get published in 
good 
>>journals while the good ones are refused.
>
>	The same situation here, in Western countries, Zung. 
>>From my experience, it is hard, but not impossible, for 
>people outside the US to publish papers in American journals. 
>My european colleagues used to say that they (the Amer 
>editors) like to LISTEN to what you are saying, but they are 
>not keen to SEE your words in print. Not always true, but it 
>is worth to know.
>
>	In most American or European journals, you have the 
>choice by telling the journal editor that you do not want 
>certain people to review your paper. This is quite 
>political!!!
>
>	I should add that in some American journals, you can 
>not just simply submit the paper without an introduction from 
>a referee, who must be s member of the journal's society. 
>This is called a close club. Many VNese or European 
>researchers have little chance of getting into these 
>journals!
>
>
>>It is commonplace nowadays to see 
>>"neutral" useless reviews, perhaps because people don't get payed 
anough for 
>>this hard work (only 8$/review, not in money but in "bon d'achat" ).
>
>	I don't think any reviewer gets paid. I certainly do 
>not. But I do not think because of the money the review is 
>useless. There are other reasons. Some reviewers, for some 
>reasons, choose to be neutral saying (as you write) useless 
>words. This is because he/she is not on the top of the area 
>that he/she reviews, so minimisation of talking is the best 
>strategy - make no enemy nor friend! But, some reviewers tend 
>to be more aggressive, because he/she does not like the 
>author of the paper (I know it sounds ridiculous, but it is 
>true sometimes). You just have to live with this sort of 
>reviewers. Still, some reviewers are more friendly to you. 
>Personality sometimes plays an important role in these so-
>called reviews. 
>
>	Although reviewers remain anonymous, but occasionally, 
>one can actually deduce who the reviewer is, by observing the 
>way/words he/she writes and speaks in conferences. 
>
>
>	Tuan
>
>

 Dear Anh Tuan, AiViet, Zung et. al.:
 
 I think the publication is depended  on the judgments of  the 
reviewers, therefore a paper can be rejected from one journal but 
accepted by the other journal .
 I would like to hear the opinions of the other side. 
 I guest, if it is the case, the Scientist society (especially, Viet 
Namese scientist) can ask the authors for their  note books, records, 
the date of manuscripts related to these papers. Maybe we can see some 
facts . 
Anybody has further informations about this? 
Is the case can be made crystal clear???
 Sincerely
 DQ
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