最近几天就处理了好几起作者对审稿意见不服的问题。一方面说明作者对自己的学习越来越有自信，敢于对审稿人的意见进行抗争，这是好事；另一方面，也会增加我们很多的工作量。 就像我们的副主编Iain Taylor说的那样，编辑人员不能像投票那样，根据推荐Accept 或者 Reject的审稿人的个数来决定一篇文章应该接收还是拒稿。责任编辑要根据文章的内容，通盘考虑审稿人提出的意见是否得当，是否可行，还要考虑此类文章是否发表得太多或者极少发表， 有时还得考虑学习区域的特殊性， 综合考虑后再作出拒稿或者修改的意见。但是在实际情况下，由于处理的稿件较多，责编往往没有足够的时间和精力去认真通读全文，并根据审稿人的意见逐条进行比对。由此作出的决定意见难免会出现偏差。 也有很多情况下，作者对自己的学习过于自信，对审稿人提出的质疑反应过激， 有的甚至质疑审稿人是因为知晓作者是谁而故意作出负面的评价等等。不论是什么情况，当作者对编辑部作出的决定不服，对审稿意见提出质疑时，编辑部应该怎么办？我就最近遇到的几个案例作一说明： 1. 一位印度作者质疑审稿人为熟悉的同行故意作出负面评价时，我会在稿件系统中查看审稿人的来源， 发现本文三位审稿人中，一位推荐大改， 两位推荐拒稿，推荐拒稿的人员分别来自欺荷兰和英国，不存在作者所说的熟人暗算他的情况，而且他们的评价虽然都指向一些文章的共同问题，但各有侧重点，而且审稿意见都非常详细。我向作者说明审稿人的情况。作者于是接受了这个决定结果。 2. 一篇非洲作者关于土地利用和土壤侵蚀的文章经过4位审稿人审稿，一位给出小修的意见，三位推荐退稿，主要认为作者似乎是在利用现存的而且较老的土地利用模型进行模拟，没有多少创新性。于是责编推荐退稿。作者收到退稿信后，发来这样一封信：I thank you for your response after my frequent request that had taught me to know the response that would come from your side. Of course， I appreciate the priceless effort that you made.I honestly thank you to what you have made though the sudden shift and status quo you made to my e-mails reminded me as you have been wrongly guided by the comments of unscientific reviews who tried to give irrational comments guessing the authors from the the name of the study area. Believe me you have sent to stupid people who are little minded. You felt the comments are scientific and rational since you assume these reviewers as top expertise. I am sorry to see expertises who can say that the K， C and P values are not properly manipulated. The articles are written by well experienced and top class professionals. Some says literatures are old. If so， they can comment to update the literatures and guide the right path and papers that we have to read if they think more has to be done. As long as they are important， do you mean that all important fundamental information and ideas of ancient philosophers/literatures have to be denied and dumped unless the reality and fact is changed. It would be nice if they suggest the ways， the gaps and the means to bring the article to their expected level if they are knowledgeable/experts on the topic. I am sorry how politics of evil minded people disrupt the progress of science and the best efforts of hard working people.遇到作者对审稿意见不服怎么办？ | 责任编辑：虫子
