Re: Scope Reviews and Comparisons

From: Brian Tung (brian_at_isi.edu)
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 02:58:30 +0000 (UTC)

I (Brian Tung) wrote:
> You probably do have a different understanding of the word. In
> academic circles, the term "invited paper" is often used to mean what
> others have meant by "solicited."

Pierre Vandevennne wrote:
> Do you imply and CN belongs to those academic circles?

I'm pretty confused. Where on earth did you get that impression?

I merely say that in academic circles, the term "invited paper" is used
unambiguously to refer to a paper which the selection committee has
specifically requested (as opposed to "we are accepting submissions of
papers on intrusion detection"). I suggest that such a term could
be used outside academic circles to avoid ambiguity in those domains.
I certainly don't mean to imply that Cloudy Nights is in the academic
domain.

> Anyway, educate me, is the following statement true or false?
>
> "Alister/CN solicited reviews from the amateur astronomer community"

Since the target of the solicitation is "the amateur astronomer community,"
what is meant is evidently "Allister sent out a call for reviews to the
amateur astronomer community." (I prefer this wording to the original,
by the way.)

The problem arises when one refers to a specific review by Joe Blow and
calls it a "solicited review." In some sense, I suppose the review was
solicited if it was submitted in response to a call for proposals, since
such a call is a kind of solicitation. But it is ambiguous because many
people do use the term to mean a review or paper specifically asked for
by the editor (or whomever).

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