J Biol. 2009;8(3):24. Epub 2009 Mar 9.

Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?

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Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA. walbot@stanford.edu.

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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?

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