Had a blast 🚀 at #ISEE2019 pre-conference peer review workshop with @EHPonline science editor Jane Schroeder. A few quick takeaways from Jane below. @ISEE_global@IseeSnrn
@EHPonline@ISEE_global@IseeSnrn 2. You are not reviewing the authors or their institution, you are reviewing the manuscript, focus on that
@EHPonline@ISEE_global@IseeSnrn 3. Before you look at the results or abstract, review the tables and figures and draw your own conclusions and identify patterns and trends in an agnostic way. If you read the author’s messaging first, it’s very hard to un-see their conclusions and do an unbiased review
@EHPonline@ISEE_global@IseeSnrn 4. Things you can (and often should) ask for as a reviewer: flow chart for population, model equations, code, further description of methods
@EHPonline@ISEE_global@IseeSnrn 5. Only request additional analyses if they are needed to support the authors’ conclusions, but it might be better for the authors to re-write their conclusions to match their current results
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Wanted to share R2 comments received from a top journal in our field, which we were not invited to respond to @marydotwillis
Comment 1: "Any time I see the term "xxx* + justice," I immediately think I'm being hustled by some virtue-signaling ignoramus who is incapable of doing something good for himself or society."
R1: Actually justice is one of the 3 ethical principles from the Belmont Report
Comment 2: "I revert to the overly simple idea that justice is following the law. If you are within the law, that is good enough for rough and ready justice."
R2: This is not the definition of justice--a fair distribution of costs and benefits.