Authors, reviewers and editors

A good link via Notes from the Biomass: an editorial by Pernille Rørth at The EMBO Journal about her work there. It's a nicely written piece, with some particularly interesting sections on rebuttals and on the differences between full time editors and scientists who are editors part time.

Sometimes [rebuttals are] done in a civil and reasonable manner, sometimes not. A few unpleasant letters from authors of rejected manuscript even contain more or less veiled insults and threats.