13-09-2019, 04:08 PM
I just want to say that the Romance Studies peer review thing is bizarre. Nothing about this reflects a standard peer-review process or normal behaviour from a journal editorial team. I am not convinced that the people they asked to do the peer-review were suitably qualified as even if the reviewers knew nothing about the VMS, C did not demonstrate comprehension of the basics of medieval linguistics or palaeography, and he misused a lot of standard terminology in ways that should have been huge red flags to any reviewer.
Stuff gets rejected from journals all the time, so quite how and why this got published raises a lot of very unfortunate questions about what is going on at that journal.
Stuff gets rejected from journals all the time, so quite how and why this got published raises a lot of very unfortunate questions about what is going on at that journal.