many referees are mean, while they are nice on the surface.
JFE report
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3722314
You should reject all the papers from the following authors, who refereed large number of papers but did not accept a single one of them. One of those rejected papers might be yours.
Tarun Chordia - 61
David Larcker - 46
Harold Mulherin - 38
Jun Koo-Kang - 36
Joanna Wu - 34
Douglas Skinner - 32
Lauren Cohen - 32
Sunil Wahal - 30
Paul Irvine - 25
Sudheer Chava - 24
Jonathan Brogaard - 24
David Mayers - 24
Jeffry Netter - 24
Dong Lou - 23
Tor-Erik Bakke - 22
Yuhai Xuan - 21
David Musto - 21
Walter Torous - 20
Peter Wyscoki - 20
Christopher Polk - 20 -
Good list to avoid
Quite a few people on this list are very productiveAdditional list of referees with excessively high rejection rates (0 acceptance out of 15-20 reviews, 1 acceptance out of 20+ reviews, or 2 acceptances out of 50+ reviews):
Loughran, Timothy
Jegadeesh, Narasimhan
Seyhun, H. Nejat
Hadlock, Charles
Barinov, Alexander
Heitzman, Shane M.
Guay, Wayne R.
Kahle, Kathleen
Ready, Robert C.
Hertzel, Michael G
Albuquerque, Rui
Holderness, Clifford
Rouwenhorst, K. Geert
Knyazeva, Anzhela
Fich, Eliezer M.
Pan, Jun
Fahlenbrach, Rudiger
Campello, Murillo
McConnell, John J.
Dew-Becker, Ian
Garleanu, Nicolae
Bhagat, Sanjai
Chernov, Mikhail
Poulsen, Annette
Engelberg, Joseph E.
Purnanandam, Amiyatosh
Reed, Adam V.
Tate, Geoffrey A.
Bakke, Tor-Erik
Opp, Christian C.
Whaley, Robert
Johnson, Timothy C
So, Eric C.
Allayannis, George
Da, Zhi
Schaefer, Scott
Drechsler, Itamar
Gillan, Stuart L.
Kiku, Dana
Gustafson, Matthew
Nini, Gregory
Mann, William
Seasholes, Mark S. -
You know why
Good list to avoid
Quite a few people on this list are very productiveAdditional list of referees with excessively high rejection rates (0 acceptance out of 15-20 reviews, 1 acceptance out of 20+ reviews, or 2 acceptances out of 50+ reviews):
Loughran, Timothy
Jegadeesh, Narasimhan
Seyhun, H. Nejat
Hadlock, Charles
Barinov, Alexander
Heitzman, Shane M.
Guay, Wayne R.
Kahle, Kathleen
Ready, Robert C.
Hertzel, Michael G
Albuquerque, Rui
Holderness, Clifford
Rouwenhorst, K. Geert
Knyazeva, Anzhela
Fich, Eliezer M.
Pan, Jun
Fahlenbrach, Rudiger
Campello, Murillo
McConnell, John J.
Dew-Becker, Ian
Garleanu, Nicolae
Bhagat, Sanjai
Chernov, Mikhail
Poulsen, Annette
Engelberg, Joseph E.
Purnanandam, Amiyatosh
Reed, Adam V.
Tate, Geoffrey A.
Bakke, Tor-Erik
Opp, Christian C.
Whaley, Robert
Johnson, Timothy C
So, Eric C.
Allayannis, George
Da, Zhi
Schaefer, Scott
Drechsler, Itamar
Gillan, Stuart L.
Kiku, Dana
Gustafson, Matthew
Nini, Gregory
Mann, William
Seasholes, Mark S. -
Additional list of referees with excessively high rejection rates (0 acceptance out of 15-20 reviews, 1 acceptance out of 20+ reviews, or 2 acceptances out of 50+ reviews):
Loughran, Timothy
Jegadeesh, Narasimhan
Seyhun, H. Nejat
Hadlock, Charles
Barinov, Alexander
Heitzman, Shane M.
Guay, Wayne R.
Kahle, Kathleen
Ready, Robert C.
Hertzel, Michael G
Albuquerque, Rui
Holderness, Clifford
Rouwenhorst, K. Geert
Knyazeva, Anzhela
Fich, Eliezer M.
Pan, Jun
Fahlenbrach, Rudiger
Campello, Murillo
McConnell, John J.
Dew-Becker, Ian
Garleanu, Nicolae
Bhagat, Sanjai
Chernov, Mikhail
Poulsen, Annette
Engelberg, Joseph E.
Purnanandam, Amiyatosh
Reed, Adam V.
Tate, Geoffrey A.
Bakke, Tor-Erik
Opp, Christian C.
Whaley, Robert
Johnson, Timothy C
So, Eric C.
Allayannis, George
Da, Zhi
Schaefer, Scott
Drechsler, Itamar
Gillan, Stuart L.
Kiku, Dana
Gustafson, Matthew
Nini, Gregory
Mann, William
Seasholes, Mark S.