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- From: fc03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Frederick W. Chapman)
- Newsgroups: sci.research
- Subject: Naive Question about Publication Practices
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.210301.25308@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:03:01 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- The current thread on co-authorship (inspired by Dr. Fabrikant) has raised
- some questions in my mind concerning the practices of scholarly
- publications. It has been suggested that an outstanding result in a
- non-mainstream or controversial research area would be rejected by
- mainstream journals unless the author has a "reputation". This strikes me
- as anomalous. If the editorial board and referees of the journal are
- competent (and I assume that most are much more than competent), then is it
- not the case that they are capable of evaluating a paper on its merits
- alone rather than its origin? In fact, to dismiss any result due to its
- origin rather than its content is a logical fallacy. Educated people
- should know better.
-
- Comments? (I am particularly interested to know how things are in the
- mathematical sciences.)
-
- Thanks,
-
- Fred Chapman
- Naive but Self-Supporting Research Mathematician
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