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Writing a constructive peer review: a young PI perspective.

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Karadottir, Ragnhildur Thora 

Abstract

Since the start of the industrial revolution, communication in science has been the cornerstone for progress and education. That the scientific community itself safeguards these communications is fundamental to the independence of science. We, as members of the scientific community, have to ensure a fair process and the upholding of standards in scientific progress. However, voices in the scientific community question whether the reviewing system is still upholding this essential part of science, that it is 'broken'. As surprising as it may seem these voices are not new, but have been there since the beginning (Csiszar, 2016), perhaps highlighting the fact that this system can, and perhaps even has, become an impediment to fair publication process: "In an ideal scientific world, bright ideas lead to hypotheses that are tested by performing carefully designed, well-controlled and rigorous experiments. These lead to exciting results that form the basis of a paper that is written and submitted for publication, followed by the rapid receipt of a letter of acceptance. But life is rarely like that". (Joels et al., 2015).

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Keywords

Biomedical Research, Humans, Peer Review, Research, Periodicals as Topic

Journal Title

Eur J Neurosci

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Journal ISSN

0953-816X
1460-9568

Volume Title

44

Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
Medical Research Council (MC_PC_12009)
Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme Trust, Medical Research Council