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Musings on Reviews

Dec 22, 2009

In The Lancet, the University of Florida's Edward Ross shares his thoughts on slow manuscript reviews by re-imagining some famous quotations. He includes:

The review isn't over until it's over.
Yogi Berra
Never in the field of manuscript conflicts was so much owed by so many authors to so few tardy reviewers.
Winston Churchill
Is the review really late, or is the rest of the world moving faster?
Albert Einstein

HT: Writedit

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