Why the referees’ reports I receive as an editor are so much better than the reports I receive as an author?

Scientometrics

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 967-986

  Garcia J A ^a   Rodriguez Sánchez, Rosa ^a   Fdez Valdivia, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Academic journal; Learning; Manuscripts; Overconfidence; Peer review; Rational authors; Self serving bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958678415     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1827-8     Document Type: Article

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