(It's a ...) Micro World (... after all): What the?

Thursday, July 02, 2009

What the?

So my collaborator on a recent co-first-authored paper informed me that they received their reviews back today. Sweet Jimminy! It took exactly 30 days for the submission and return of the reviews. Here in agriculture-review-land, I had to wait over 100 days for the reviews of my submission to be returned to me (which I now need to address). My current submission has been in for 8 days. Wonder if I'll hear anything back in the next 22?

2 comments:

microbiologist xx said...: I'm so jealous. I am currently awaiting word on a paper that was submitted in May...early May.; 6:35 PM
Tom said...: Yeah, that's a long damn time to wait for a review. Not as long as I had to wait for my last review, but it's pretty darn long nonetheless. I'm hoping my latest submission turns out much better.; 2:50 PM

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Thomas Joseph
Professionally I am a bug hunter (aka microbiologist) and a gene jockey (aka molecular biologist). I started my career as a med tech, but now I'm a research scientist who studies environmental microbiology. When I'm not answering scientific questions about the roles that microbes play on climate change and/or water and soil quality, I'm an amateur astronomer and play racquetball. I'm also a sports nut, though my liking of both the NY Metropolitans (baseball) and NY Jets (football) tests my devotion to these sports on a continual basis. Fortunately, I'm also an OU alumnus (PhD, Microbiology) and we usually have a pretty good football team. Boomer Sooner!

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