FemaleScienceProfessor

As an editor of a journal, the feedback that I give to authors of publishable papers varies from: optional advice , along the lines of ...

When you are submitting a manuscript, do you format the text, tables etc. in the style of the journal or do you wait and see if the paper i...

Can you think of a (good) reason why a journal would need to know the gender of authors and reviewers? A reader wrote to me with this que...

Sorry to spring this on you, but I wanted to make sure that you have all been keeping up with the material. This little quiz will help me s...

Summer is not a great time for editors of journals to find reviewers for manuscripts. At least, that is my experience. In the summer, many a...

A post last week dealt with a topic related to my work as an editor of a journal. Some commenters raised issues about editors and reviewer...

A few times since I have been a journal editor or guest editor, authors of rejected manuscripts have written angry e-mails railing against t...

A reader writes with a query about some manuscripts that were rejected without review; in one case the summary rejection was sort of underst...

It is completely understandable that some people who are new to reviewing manuscripts may lack confidence in their reviews and wonder whethe...

There are many different ways that one can be involved in the editorial aspects of scholarly journals, and one's experience with the edi...

The title is a lame attempt at referring to the famous 1975 New York Daily News headline (Ford to City: etc.) and is my way of introducing ...

In my role as editor, I have the ability to rescind a review that is 'inappropriate', and the definition of inappropriate is left to...

Last week I chatted with the editor of a science journal -- a different journal from the one for which I do some editing -- and we compared ...

Every so often (4-8 times/year), scientists at a university in a non-English-speaking country will ask me to edit the English in a manuscrip...

A manuscript that I have been reviewing/editing was sent back to the author for revisions, the author and I corresponded about the revisions...

Yesterday I wrote about reviewer statistics for a particular journal. Another part of this journal dataset shows the number of manuscript su...