{"id":20823,"date":"2022-10-14T20:41:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=20823"},"modified":"2022-10-14T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:42:22","slug":"pitbull-reviewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/10\/pitbull-reviewer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitbull reviewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jbiol.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/jbiol125#auth-Virginia-Walbot\" data-test=\"author-name\" data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"open author\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-author-popup=\"auth-Virginia-Walbot\" data-corresp-id=\"c1\">Virginia Walbot<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-article-section__content c-article-section__content--separator\">\n<blockquote><p>Who hasn&#8217;t reacted with shock to a devastatingly negative review of a manuscript representing years of work by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows on a difficult, unsolved question? &#8230; dismissing the years of labor and stating that the manuscript can only be reconsidered with substantially more data providing definitive proof of each claim. &#8230; Your manuscript is declined, with encouragement to resubmit when new data are added.<br \/>\nI confess. I&#8217;m partly responsible for training the pit-bull reviewer, and I bet you are too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Walbot\u00a0&#8220;Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?&#8221; Who hasn&#8217;t reacted with shock to a devastatingly negative review of a manuscript representing years of work by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows on a difficult, unsolved question? &#8230; dismissing the years of labor and stating that the manuscript can only be reconsidered with substantially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/10\/pitbull-reviewer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pitbull reviewer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3922,1185,218],"class_list":["post-20823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-fairness","tag-review","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20825,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions\/20825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}