Mathematics

The English version of China Science Mathematics has always been a good mathematical journal, and the quality of papers has greatly improved in recent years. However, there is something that makes people confused about certain operations of this journal: Last year, I reviewed a paper in a very familiar field, so I spent two months carefully reading the paper. At that time, I personally felt that although the paper had some commendable aspects, the traces of parallel generalization were too obvious, and it was also pointed out that they actually did not study the original conjecture, let alone make any progress in the research of the original conjecture. Therefore, I suggested that the authors rewrite the Abstract and Introduction, and also pointed out several flaws in proof details, but I did not recommend it for publication in the English version because it lacked originality and the results were not that impressive. After a few months, I unexpectedly found that the paper was accepted by China Science Mathematics (English version). If that's the case, what is the role of the reviewers? Can't the editor just make the decision directly?

Four reviewers, one major revision, one minor revision. The reviewers were fast and provided very fair suggestions! One of the reviewers might have had a personal grudge against me, but the other three reviewers gave positive comments and recommended acceptance or minor revisions. However, this particular reviewer insisted on rejecting the paper and criticized it harshly, claiming that the language, topic, methodology, and conclusions of my paper were all inadequate and absurd! Furthermore, the reviewer intentionally provided difficult suggestions that made it impossible for me to make changes, even after two rounds of revisions... Fortunately, the editor did not adopt his opinion and accepted the paper directly.

Submission process:
Received: May 12, 2022
Accepted: June 18, 2022
Published: June 21, 2022