Sometimes when reading reviewers’ comments we can find ourselves asking “have they even read the paper?!”. Your reviewers will be representative of a portion of your intended readership. We think this needs to change – here are some pointers for how to interact with your reviewers. These exchanges largely happen in private and even though they play a critical role in academia, we rarely talk about them in public.
However, all too often responding to reviewers is seen as an onerous chore, which partly reflects the attitude we take into the process. Interactions with reviewers are an incredibly valuable opportunity to improve your manuscript and find the best way of presenting your science.
We now turn our attention to the response to reviewers.Īs with the role of reviewer, junior scientists submitting their work as authors are given little (if any) guidance on how to interact with their reviewers. It is a follow-up to our previous joint post about peer-review. This is a blog piece is written with Sue Fletcher-Watson, a colleague of supreme wisdom and tact, ideally qualified for this particular post.
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