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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's a long lasting tradition to use "we" even in solo authored papers. I believe even Newton did this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Reject modernity, embrace tradition 😆

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If our knowledge is based on our forebears, it would always be we.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The 2nd referee will nonetheless tell you to get rid of all of them

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The second referee once told us that our paper should not be published at all.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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did he say YOU shouldn't publish it or it shouldn't be published?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.