How should I revise my paper?
Mike Calver
Pacific Conservation Biology
16(1) 2 - 3
Published: 2010
Abstract
Many readers will have seen the YouTube parodies based on the movie Downfall in which new subtitles are substituted for the original ones to redirect Adolf Hitler?s rage to car thieves, computer software, entertainers and many other targets. For authors of scientific papers, the most popular parody of all is probably the attack on the peer review process (http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=VRBWLpYCPY). In this, Hitler (or Herr Professor as he is called in the subtitles) receives two favourable reviews on a submitted paper, but the third reviewer feels that the conclusions aren?t justified by the data and insists on additional experiments before publication. Hitler bursts into a furious diatribe against ignorant reviewers and the editors who select them. The peer review parody has attracted numerous comments, including many from people who claim to have received insensitive or inappropriate reviews.https://doi.org/10.1071/PC100002
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