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审稿人评语集锦【转】
环境类期刊《Environmental Microbiology》在每年最后一期都有审稿人评语集锦，觉得这是个学习的好对象，读后愈发觉得老外的幽默细胞与生俱来，在严肃的科研工作之余，不忘轻松自己也是轻松编辑和审稿人一把。
不过有些句子如果是给我稿子的审稿意见，我肯定哭死，伤人的句子确实很扎心。这里特别汇总一些感觉比较有针对性的语录和博友们分享。从中我们也能看出目前很多稿件所存在的共同问题，我感觉很多是针对第三世界国家的科学家们说的，这些问题也很可能就在你我的下一个submission中，值得我们警惕。
我们写文章的时候最常见的问题就是英文语法和写作的问题了
--The authors need to remember that adverbs in English tend to end in -ly.
--The work is basically sound but unfortunately the presentationis a bit of a dog’s breakfast.
--The authors seem unable to think/write in a straight line!
--They have no clue what they write about.
--I’m not convinced that they know what they’re talking about.
严重到前后文脱节，文字繁琐冗余
--The Introduction and the Discussion sections are contradictory. I even believe that the Discussion may actually belong to another manuscript.
--The Abstract and Results read much like a laundry list.
--The Abstract describes results that I could not find in the Results section.
--Page X, line Y claims both ‘rare’ and ‘unusual.’Madonna and Tony Blair might use both in the same sentence.
--It seems that the manuscript was written by a mathematician, rather than a microbial ecologist.
--I only am willing to read this again if it has less than 20 pages (Ed.: the original submission had 54)
--I would be glad to look at a revised manuscript, but please give me a few months to get over the current version!
--These hobby scientists present their data in such a verbose way that it is not worth to print.
甚至漏洞百出
--Mouldy bread（发霉的面包）. Unfortunately there are too many technical flaws in this one. Too bad because the potential was high.
--For sake of time I have listed only a few (13!) of the most glaring errors.
--Hundreds of commas are missing!
而有些人仍然想自圆其说
--The authors of this study blindly run through the darkness and keep writing down details of their trail.
最后的结果就是一竿子拍死
--I have found this ms. boring to death.
--The peaceful atmosphere between Christmas and New Year was transiently disrupted by reading this manuscript.
-This one almost killed me. I am a ‘detail person’, obviously.
--I am sorry that I have spoiled my Xmas holidays with such a bad manuscript.
--I am fed up with people ignoring totally the instructions for authors.
--I wonder if you and I do not have better things to do than help people who can’t help themselves.
--My heart sinks when I have to review papers from this group as I know my response is most likely going to be as long as the paper.
--I hate this paper. It’s a bunch of engineers trying to do microbial ecology by numbers and not thinking about what/why they are doing it.
--This paper is essentially illegible. I have made suggestions for improvement to the authors, but a full list would have taken much longer than this paper is worth. You will see that I tried to be civil to the authors, as I assume they tried their best to write a good paper.
--Reject – did not meet any of their objectives.
--This is an altogether dispensable paper. The contribution to the field is ZERO.
--This is an essentially unreadable paper sent to the wrong journal.
--This is the most chaotic manuscript I have ever had for review. I am sorry for the colleagues to have wasted such an amount of time and resources to put this non-informative manuscript together and am I sorry for me to have read it many times to find at least something which is valid (but I could not find a single piece).
--Feels like banging my head against a brick wall with this one.
--This paper is long-winded. You can reject it without causing damage for the scientific community.
引文的年代问题也不能忽视
--Almost all references used by the authors are from the last century.
以量取胜的文章小心被揪住为啥数据都不做重复呢
--I really think it is time for molecular studies to use proper replication and not use the amount of work as an excuse anymore.
有些作者自以为是，动不动就是first time work，不尊重同行已有的工作，审稿人最为反感
--They were not the first to have done this, but they don't seem to know that.
--The shear ignorance of work that has been done earlier is frightening!
----I don't think the authors understood the literature well enough to perform the right experiments.
不引用同行的工作，正好落到该同行手里，有可能的评语就是：
--Here and elsewhere they make it clear that they do not admire X or Y research (Ed.: Y is the reviewer), they make that quite clear by their non-citation of relevant work. But I have gotten used to it. Once they tighten this up, it is a clear accept.
审稿人对实验结果的取笑不是每个人都能扛得住的
--It also suffers from death by DGGE gels (11 in total –aaargh!).
--It is amazing to see how much sequencing effort was done and how little profit taken from it.
交叉学科的研究也得小心招致审稿人对外行的取笑
--I am sorry to say . . .but it seems that good chemists walked into the area of environmental microbiology without any knowledge about it.
还有笑话作者的知识水平的
--I have taken out my earlier comment that the authors retake Chemistry 101（重修基础化学）, that is probably not allowable.
--This was a possible candidate for the ‘worst use of statistics to substantiate a falsehood’ award.
审稿人读到很糟糕的稿子都会强烈后悔当初同意审稿的决定，并努力把这段经历从记忆中抹去
--I got increasingly angry during the two hours I dedicated to the review. I know that the editors of EM are very busy but they should avoid being an author of a manuscript written in such a style.
--Dear Editor, try not to force the poor reviewers to do a work which overcomes their field of expertise. Remember: a happy reviewer (I am not sure if reviewers could reach any level of happiness) should be a better reviewer.
--This was a very poor paper. I am sorry I read it; I will try to purge it from my mind.
--A terrible paper, not even a good science fair project. Please let me have some time to complete grant applications.
不过，审稿人对好文章也会不吝溢美之词，毕竟他们也是有血有肉的性情中人
--A jewel that the Journal will be proud of for many years to come.
--This year I have had the dubious pleasure of reviewing a lot of truly terrible manuscripts. However, this manuscript was a real beauty to review. Please accept this ASAP.
--Meticulously presented manuscript, almost perfect in style and grammar (never seen in a ms. coming from Japan).
--I found the manuscript to be well performed in all aspects, from the experimental design to the writing ofthe manuscript. I wish all manuscripts I review were of this quality.
--Could become a major highlight of the Journal for many years to come.
--Top-quality superb paper with two Achilles’ heels.
--Wow: Systems Biology is knocking at the Journal’s door.
有审稿人会比较喜欢搞怪的吧，用些我们不大明白的俚语
--I felt like I was teaching my grandmother to suck eggs. Accept with minor revision.
--I nearly said reject. But then I recalled that I have a hangover and I am feeling grumpy.
--Tank this turkey!
作为新手得提防收到这样的评语
--It looks as if the project was started by a beginner. At some point the seniors realized the initial weaknesses and tried to compensate by high-quality technology and application of up-to-date algorithms. However, if the fundamentals are wrong, any further investments are a waste of time.
其他一些问题有：
不知道通讯作者们有多少是根本不读稿子的
--Another ms bites the dust – I don’t think the corresponding author has read it.
而且，署名作者的数量太多也会被质疑
--It is hard for me to understand why it takes 5 authors to perform and describe one simple experiment.
数据太完美的问题比较少见，不过也得小心
--I do not want to accuse the authors of falsification of the data, but these figures are simply too perfect!
最后，多体谅一下老先生们的眼睛吧，尽量用大点的字号！
--The only other major criticism is the font size in Fig. 2. It is a strain on old eyes! |
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