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

["Nguyen Tien Zung" <tienzung@darboux.math.univ-montp2.fr>]

> 	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 think in Maths you can tell the journal that you prefer that or that
editor (from a many-people editorial board) to handle your paper, but 
you have no control over who will review your paper once it's published, 
because its done by AMS (or something similar if in ZentralBlatz (sp?))


> 	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.

Poor you, Tuan. I did get paid. But I dropped that job after a few reviews
because I found that it is really a hard work if you want to write serious
reviews, 
especially about the papers that
are not directly related to your work (in that case you may have to spend
hours
and days on a paper to understand its results - which you may not need).

> 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. 

Agreed.

Cheers, Z