Journal of Biology


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Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?

Virginia Walbot

Author Affiliations

Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA

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

Published: 9 March 2009

Abstract

Good early training of graduate students and postdocs is needed to prevent them turning into future generations of manuscript-savaging reviewers. How can we intercalate typical papers into our training?