• summerof69@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      That’s a long lasting tradition to use “we” even in solo authored papers. We believe even Newton did this

      • humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        The second referee once told us that our paper should not be published at all.

        Eventually, it made it to the Editor’s choice section of the journal

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            8 months ago

            I suspect they were a rival of my co-author, that’s why they didn’t want it to be published. Or they didn’t want me to be published in this journal.

            The communication is happening through journal’s editors, so they could not explicitly write that they don’t want ME to be publish papers.

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      8 months ago

      Yup, that was a requirement for most papers at my uni. We also use the plural you to show respect, even when talking to a single person.