Make peer reviews more effective!
If you are a peer reviewer or a journal editor, you must be sending out feedback to authors regularly. Did you know that, often, authors feel demotivated when they receive unclear or negative comments from peer reviewers? By sharing the reactions of some authors who received unclear or negative comments from reviewers, this powerful video conveys the need for reviewers to communicate clearly and with empathy when sharing feedback with authors.
Reference: Majumder, Kakoli. "How do authors feel when they receive negative peer reviewer comments? An experience from Chinese biomedical researchers."European Science Editing, 42 no. 2 (2016): 31-35
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