昨天收到评审结果,包含一封编辑的来信(主要对三名评审专家的意见总结)和三份专家评审意见。被拒的原因我认为是理论和方法创新不够,论文设计有重大缺陷和“poor execution”下面我对这些评审意见发表下自己的看法:
编辑的来信态度很温和,以指出问题和鼓励为主,读完之后虽然难免失落,但还是很受鼓舞。
评审专家1的意见就很尖锐,后面我会附上专家前两条意见,供大家参考和学习。这两条意见主要是针对论文字体和一些文字上的错误进行了“严厉”的批评和教育,让我深受启发,也有一些感想,这里与想真正搞学术的朋友分享:1、细节把握的好不一定是一篇好论文,但细节出现问题一定不是好论文;2、国内的学术环境不好的原因很有可能就是我们论文不注重细节,缺乏重视细节的意识,希望真正搞学术的人发挥引导作用,我们自身也要严格要求,提高学术水平;3、缺乏发表国际论文的常识,一般学者都是多投稿从而获取经验,这样就会带来挫折感和影响我们的声誉,我个人觉得多跟有经验的学者学习才能提高水平;4、任何问题都不要“想当然”,认真去查证,专家提出的很多问题都是我没有认真查证犯下的错误。
评审专家2给出5段说明,分别与JMS的要求作对比,指出论文的缺陷并给出了建议,最后还列出了10多篇参考文献,让我仔细阅读进一步修改论文。
评审专家3提出6个比较具体的问题,我感觉问题也都非常到位。
评审专家1的部分评审意见,希望发表论文的引以为戒,不要犯这种低级的错误:
This paper has an interesting topic and the author has collected a great deal of data. However, ultimately, I am disappointed by the poor execution of the paper.
1. I have been in the field for over 20 yrs and served as editor-in-chief of a top 20 mgmt journal. Also I have served as a JMS ERB member for a number of yrs. Out of thousands of papers I have read, I have to say the TYPEFACE of your paper is the MOST WEIRD. Why didn’t you use a more normal typeface such as Times New Roman? Don’t accuse me of being “unfair” and judging a paper by its typeface. I am just being human — we all first judge a book by its cover, and I as an experienced reviewer first judge a paper by its typeface. This typeface is very hard to read, and I have struggled to keep going. Sorry, in my view a paper that doesn’t look right just doesn’t feel right.
论文的字体由于投稿须知上并未要求,我是采用JMS上发表论文的字体,没想到激怒了专家;
2. Here is your title. It has two errors:
How and when does Ownership Promote Product Innovation in a Transitional Economy? Evidence from China
(a) The W in the 3rd word should be capitalized. If the author doesn’t know such simple rule of capitalization, the author must be incompetent. If the author knows the rule but is just sloppy and has failed to catch it in proofreading, the author must be a sloppy scholar. If the author can’t catch such simple error, how much confidence do I have in the author’s ability to handle very complicated statistics (as the author would like to impress me in this paper)? Sorry, close to zero.
这个是我自己的失误和“想当然”犯下的错误,无话可说;
(b) This is minor. Drop the “al” in “transitional economy.” Should be “transition economy.”
这个我查看了JMS以往期刊,有2篇也是用的“transitional economy”,但用“transition economy”的居多;
Overall, it’s a shame that the author has messed up this opportunity due to very poor execution of this paper.
注:这位专家给出8个意见,只有2条是针对内容的,其他6条基本上都是这种细节的问题,可见这个问题多么重要,希望对大家有启发。
总的来说,我非常认同评审专家的意见,自己水平确实存在差距。把这些经验与大家分享,一来缓解自己失落的心情,二来希望对大家有所启发,提高我们的水平,发国际论文不要被鄙视。
加油ing!