| Title |
Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Biology, March 2009
|
| DOI | 10.1186/jbiol125 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Virginia Walbot |
| 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? |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 164 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 52 | 32% |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 8% |
| Canada | 7 | 4% |
| Australia | 4 | 2% |
| Spain | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| Portugal | 2 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1% |
| South Africa | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 19 | 12% |
| Unknown | 58 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 79 | 48% |
| Scientists | 78 | 48% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 3% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 126 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 47 | 1% |
| Brazil | 31 | <1% |
| Germany | 30 | <1% |
| Canada | 18 | <1% |
| Japan | 16 | <1% |
| France | 16 | <1% |
| Spain | 15 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 12 | <1% |
| Other | 91 | 3% |
| Unknown | 2890 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 814 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 538 | 16% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 433 | 13% |
| Professor | 387 | 12% |
| Other | 213 | 6% |
| Other | 591 | 18% |
| Unknown | 316 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 763 | 23% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 555 | 17% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 194 | 6% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 174 | 5% |
| Engineering | 141 | 4% |
| Other | 1089 | 33% |
| Unknown | 376 | 11% |