Reviewing academic papers: Observation

When you are reviewing papers for a journal, it is in your best interest to stake out papers most like your own as “acceptable for publication”.

If it is a higher IF than you usually reach, you should argue for a manuscript that is somewhat below that journal’s standard.

If it is a journal in which you have published, it is in your interest to crap on any manuscript that is lesser than your typical offerings.

Writing academic papers: Observation

It is sometimes easy to forget that the trainees do not have a boatload of their writing published yet.

Even if their way of phrasing it kind of sucks ass……there’s that.