obscure and unrefereed

Guido.J.Braem@bio.uni-giessen.de
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 01:14:49 +0000

Michael C. wrote:

> The nicknames sound infinately better than a flood of slapdash new species
> publications in obscure unrefereed journals! :-)

Well, well! Please be careful. Who is to say what is 'obscure'. I
know people who call an article obscure when it is not published in
_their_ country and/or _their_ language.

And as far as 'refereed' or 'peer review' journals are concerned,
that is a very difficult subject. I have seen a lot of 'Bull' in peer
review journals and a lot of good material in non-peer review ones. I
do not want to generalise, but a lot of peer reviewers tend to do what the
editor wants or what they think the editor wants (by the way, I am a referee)

PS: I have got my asbestes suit on.

Guido
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