#Reviewer

Suzy Hobbs Baker

just got back my first ever reviewer comments and would like to quit academia thanks My review of reviewer comments: I have no idea how someone could take actual helpful

1. These are my own personal 10 commandments of peer review: I the reviewer WILL write my review in a helpful, kind, & considerate voice. I will NOT sound angry,

JoshuaGrubbsPhD

Peer review is wild. It's like if you took your car to mechanic and one mec said: "we noticed all your doors have rusted out, you should fix those" and

Sylvain ❄️👨🏻‍🎓

Opening the review of my failed ERC grant after 3 months (that's what it took for the disappointment to fade). Let's see. 7 reviewers. Yep, that's how serious the ERC

Study section met yesterday to vote on my R01. Rigged! They are accepting mail in reviews. MAIL-IN REVIEWS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE

How do we push back reviewer's policing of the genre of academic writing? I started with one manuscript with a quote from a novel, and the quote beautifully captured the

As a reviewer, my goal is to find critical flaws, not to "improve" the paper. Every paper can be improved in 100 different ways, many of them subjective. The authors

Someone wrote the following on a review to a highprofile conservation journal:"Although some text is OK, the MS is not fully written in intelligible English, and sadly, I don't have

gamergate was when a nobody gamedev allegedly slept with one (1) nobody game reviewer, for the alleged purpose of getting a slightly better review for the nobody gamedev's unknown game

loosenesswwords

This is a weird and kinda sad double-down for many reasons, but one stands out to me, the issue of the reviewer being an outsider, and why that matters. Because

A thread about reviewing.These are my opinions as an author, reviewer, editor & human being.It should go without saying...Being rejected from a journal is fine.Reviews contrary to your viewpoint are

Why am I in this situation again? First one to rate & review and my honest opinion of the book is like 1-2 stars out of 5. Only this time

denis shaughnessy

denishaughnessy

I submit to you that a one-dimensional rating system for books is almost meaningless, #writingcommunity, as the rating given to any book will depend upon the tastes of the reviewer.

Dr. Nicole Bedera

It happened. I got an R&R back with the comment that the main issue with my paper is a "weak scientific writing style." It includes a list of sentences the

Michael Breakspear

How to revise:As an editor and author I have seen many revised papers return to journals. Given effort, most go well (ie step toward acceptance). Some go pear-shaped. I’ve slowly

kacen callender

oh, cool, just got a pub review that basically says I wrote my blackness and transness wrong in Felix Ever After. I know lots of authors have to deal with