01-12-2025, 06:43 PM
(01-12-2025, 01:43 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The question of references to internet pages will be handled differently by different publishers.
I think you can go even further here: They will be handled differently by different reviewers. I have never received a publisher's guidelines in that regard as either author or reviewer and have never heard of a desk rejection based on such an aspect. Therefore, the paper will probably end up with someone who may or may not actually be familiar with the particular topic of research, who receives no pay or recognition for their review and who has little incentive to dedicate more than the absolute minimum of time to it. Finding questionable sources is an easy way of making a decision if the gut feeling is mostly skeptical.
If your research, style etc. are impeccable to the degree that the review is essentially a formality with the journal in question (which may be the case with well-established scholars such as C. Bowern, even in double-blind review), these aspects are of course less relevant.

