Dear Prof. xxx,
A Principal Editor has evaluated your manuscript titled
Effect of xxxxxxx.
and I regret to inform you that, based on the comments, it will not be
possible to further consider your manuscript for publication in Journal of
Materials Research. The comments of the editor are enclosed for your
consideration. I hope the information provided by the editor will be helpful
in future studies.
Sincerely,
Dr. Gordon Pike
Associate Editor, JMR
Principal Editor Comments for the Author:
I have read this manuscript and think it is of very poor quality. First of
all, the xxx system has been characterized in detail for the past xxxxx
and is a model xxxxx system. The microstructure and
mechanical properties including effects of prior strain etc have all been
characterized in detail by many researchers. So there is nothing new here.
Next, these authors are drawing poor conclusions based on poor experiments
(their bright field TEM analysis using multi-beam is appalling!) It is well
known that xxxx is a plate-shaped precipitate! Any beginning book in
metallurgy (like Ashby's Introduction to Materials Science) will verify
this. Yet, the authors refer to it as xxxx. Then they calculate
dimensions of the precipitates based on projected 2D images without caring
for crystallographic orientations or g-vectors in the image. THey talk
about xxxx being present or absent without adopting 2-beam
conditions!! There are 3 variants of this precipitate due to cube-on-cube
relationships and no attention is given to anything like this. THen they
talk of growth based on xxxxx when all of this can
be artifacts of projection and there is no discussion of error bars on
measurements. Single xxxxx curves are compared and a point is made
of elongations varying betweenxxxx etc and these are all well
within scatter, especially in xxxx where grain boundary precipitates
will participate in stress concentration and crack nucleation (There has to
be a lot of xxxxx in xxxxx).
I could go on and on but see no point. I do not want to waste reviewers
time with this kind of paper.
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