原则一 ——记住,回答问题是一门取悦别人的艺术:
1. 不要让问题影响你的情绪;
2. 认真对待每一个问题,读懂每个问题,确定回答策略;
3. 回答策略就是坚持审稿人是对的;
4. 对于审稿人提出的补充实验,尽可能照办;
5. 对于有争议的问题,要不卑不亢地回答。
原则二——三步走策略:
1. 引用文献
2. 承诺未来
3. 进行讨论
原则三——十一项注意:
问题的分类和回答策略
1. 轮子的问题:分以下五步进行:
感谢提问;同意观点;承认错误;综述别人成果;承诺未来。
如:
The reviewer has made a very good point here. Our original description has been misleading, and we have made correction in this revision as requested. I noticed that in previous studies, [罗列文献]。
This is a constructive suggestion by the reviewers. We have added these contents in the Discussion sector of this revision, which will help readers to better understand this article.
2.哲学家的问题:we will be very glad if the reviewer can specify his questions and give us a list of questions, which will definitely help us to improve our manuscript.
3.完美主义问题: we also mentioned in the Discussion section.
4.外行的问题: we are sorry that we failed to make us clearly…
5.一般性学术问题
6.重大学术问题: 当遇到“exceptionally immature”/ “severe limitations”的评价时,建议按要求修改后再改投其它杂志。
7.要求补充实验:(条件允许,最好补充)
8.写作,格式,语言等方面
9.伦理问题
10.不该出现的问题:I am sorry for this kind of mistakes to eliminate such kind of problems.
11.科研不端:对于一稿想同时投英文和中文杂志,必须在cover letter中告知杂志社此事,做到透明化,才能避免纠纷。