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The journal-review process is always the subject of some scorn among scholars. Fox School of Business Human Resource Management Professor Robert Giacalone laments the state of blind journal reviews and outlines the five “species” of reviewers he tends to encounter, including the insecure expert and the expert in everything. “I suppose I am grateful I have managed to get more than 100 articles through the review process,” writes Giacalone, editor of the Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion. “I take comfort in knowing that, at least in reviewing articles for journals that only other academics will read, there is relatively little damage done to the larger universe of ideas.”
http://chronicle.com/article/The-5-Species-of-Journal/130016/







