most recent 30 from academia.stackexchange.com 2025-08-06T17:25:38Z https://academia.stackexchange.com/feeds/question/161197 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdf https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/161197 10 sophar https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/92153 2025-08-06T12:29:43Z 2025-08-06T00:27:44Z

<p>I reviewed a manuscript and suggested a major revision, which was done in meantime. Now that I receive the revised manuscript again, I see that the 2nd reviewer wrote only one sentence in his review to the first draft of the manuscript, although there were major issues at the theoretical, methodological, and linguistic levels. Should I tell the editor that I consider such a review insufficient?</p>

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/161197/-/161199#161199 15 Coder https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/53762 2025-08-06T12:36:45Z 2025-08-06T12:36:45Z

<blockquote> <p>I see that the 2nd reviewer wrote only one sentence in his review to the first draft of the manuscript, although there were major issues at the theoretical, methodological, and linguistic levels.</p> </blockquote> <p>Are these issues not addressed in the revised submission (based on your comments)? Have the authors addressed all your comments carefully and satisfactorily?</p> <blockquote> <p>Should I tell the editor that I consider such a review insufficient?</p> </blockquote> <p>I would not do this. It is the job of the editor to see whether the reviewer has done justice to the article.</p> <hr /> <p>However, if you think there are still some issues with the revised manuscript, give it a fresh read and add more comments, e.g.</p> <p>&quot;I can see that the authors have addressed all of my previous comments. But, I still see that the article could be further improved if the following few points are addressed...&quot;</p>

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/161197/-/161200#161200 9 Buffy https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/75368 2025-08-06T12:37:33Z 2025-08-06T12:37:33Z

<p>I suspect that the editor has also recognized this and I doubt that your reinforcing it will have any effect. But yes, you can pass on your observations. There may be valid reasons for the &quot;failure&quot; of the other reviewer (or not).</p> <p>But it seems as if the paper got improved, so the system as a whole hasn't failed.</p>

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/161197/-/161225#161225 1 Allure https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/84834 2025-08-06T00:27:44Z 2025-08-06T00:27:44Z

<p>I have seen this kind of response as an editor - reviewer A says reviewer B's review is terrible because of so-and-so. I was certainly not offended, and neither was reviewer B, because I never shared reviewer A's comments with reviewer B.</p> <p>So it's OK. In your case though, &quot;I consider their review insufficient&quot; is not something for you to judge; what is sufficient or insufficient is for the editor to decide. A technical comment such as &quot;reviewer B's ___ comment is not appropriate because ___&quot; would be more useful to the editor. Furthermore, in your case, it might not be necessary to tell the editor at all, because it should be obvious that the second reviewer's review is superficial.</p>

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