This morning on the Today programme I heard a story that made me laugh.
A serious academic journal called 'Environmental Microbiology' has published a whole list of comments that have been written by experts engaged in peer-review. For anyone new to this term, peer-review is a process that authors go through to have their reports published in high quality academic journals. It's like being at school and having your essay marked by the smartest kid in class.
If you're a student who's received some brutal feedback from a lecturer recently have a look here and see how the professionals do it! Some people are very hard to please!
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here's another story about peer review standards that always appealed to me:
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