Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?

Virginia Walbot

Correspondence: Virginia Walbot walbot@stanford.edu

Journal of Biology 2009, 8:24 doi:10.1186/jbiol125

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Pit-bull reviewing, the pursuit of perfection and the victims of success

Miranda Robertson BMC Biology 2011, 9:84 (1 December 2011)

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The festering discontent with reviewing and editorial practices in the high-profile biology journals has erupted into a new high-quality open access journal to be launched in 2012. Miranda Robertson explores the problem and the solutions offered, and revisits the re-review opt-out policy operated by BMC Biology.

Plus ça change

Miranda Robertson BMC Biology 2010, 8:44 (12 April 2010)

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The fusion of BMC Biology and Journal of Biology offers the best of both, with hybrid vigor.

Top ten in Journal of Biology in 2009: stem cells, influenza, pit bulls, Darwin, and more

Miranda Robertson Journal of Biology 2009, 8:102 (31 December 2009)

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