Author: Daniel Tillett
Position: PI
Institution: LaTrobe University
E-mail: d.tillett@latrobe.edu.au
Submitted Date: April 30, 2007
Published Date: May 1, 2007
This comment was originally posted as a “Reader Response” on the publication date indicated above. All Reader Responses are now available as comments.

I think it is great that people are looking at ways to speed up the review process are great, but what about the quality of the reviews? My experience is that the review process is almost totally random with acceptance showing little or no correlation with manuscript quality. I have had papers rejected outright on totally ridiculous grounds which I have then sent off to the next journal (without modifying a single word) to then have them accepted without change. Both sets of reviewers can't be right!