Read the literature

I’ve just finished another reviewer report for a journal, and yet again I’ve had to make comments about reading the literature. It’s not difficult. Before you write a paper, read what other people have done. A simple search on Google scholar will usually do the trick. And before you submit a paper, check again that you haven’t missed anything important. The paper I reviewed today did not cite a single reference from either of the two most active research groups in the area in the last ten …