The Journal of Neurophysiology is reporting an analysis of peer review outcome for a sample of manuscripts submitted for review in the first half of 2007. Major kudos to them for being concerned enough to conduct such a self-analysis.

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Opening the DM mailbag over my coffee this morning I noticed the following query from a loyal friend of the blog:

I am working on getting [my first] R01 submitted [soon]. This is in keeping with many people saying that I need to get going as fast as possible with R01 (including yourself and cPP). Guest speaker, who is on a study section (not the one I am going to) said I should definitely wait two years so I can get things rolling before applying. hmmm.

Here’s the answer you need to give to such people:

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