A material population increase requires a high level of in-migration, but the reverse is not necessarily the case, and I wonder if the wards and isolated communes showing raised rates of CL in these two recent publications experienced marked population increases?
Or, especially in Germany: 'Do you believe in reincarnation?' Most surreal publication experience?
Membership is by application, and the requirements are stiff: a record of scholarly publication, experience in ornithological education, and leadership in conservation efforts or bird surveys.
Chi-square tests were used to compare the distribution of rejection rate categories among respondents with and without publication experience in high impact factor journals.
Respondents reported significantly different recommended rejection rates of reviewed manuscripts depending on publication experience in high-impact-factor (IF) journals (Table 1).
We cannot assess whether reviewers with more publication experience in high-IF journals are unduly critical (i.e. reject manuscripts that actually merit publication), or whether those with less experience are insufficiently critical (i.e. fail to notice significant shortcomings).
Multiple reviewer selection for a given manuscript therefore should consider not only appropriate expertise, but also reviewers that have variable publication experience with a range of different journals to ensure balanced treatment.
We also piloted the survey with 8 physicians who had editorial and publication experience for length and readability.
First, it was not based on random selection of medical schools and academics, it mainly focused on the respondents from high-ranking universities with extensive publication experience.
As a result, our findings cannot be generalized to academics with relatively less publication experience, academics working in medical schools which only focus on teaching and academics working in a research institute not affiliated with a university.
