When I receive an article back from reviewers with proposed changes, what I love to see is a large number of suggestions in the first two pages that gradually taper off into zero suggestions after pages 5 or 6. This means that they got won over by my argument after initially finding it weird. You can often see the exact moment when their minds were changed where, after several pissy comments, a reviewer says, “this is so interesting” or “I love this approach.”
The article I received back today has the record number of 4 reviewers but this is a German publication, and Germans do like to be thorough.
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