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Snappy answers to stupid questions: an evidence-based framework for responding to peer-review feedback

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Authors are inundated with feedback from peer reviewers. Although this feedback is usually helpful, it can also be incomprehensible, rude or plain silly. Inspired by Al Jaffe's classic comic from Mad Magazine, we sought to develop an evidenced-based framework for providing "snappy answers to stupid questions," in the hope of aiding emerging academics in responding appropriately to feedback from peer review. METHODS: We solicited, …

Authors

Rosenfield D; Hoffman SJ

Journal

Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 181, No. 12, pp. e301–e305

Publisher

Joule

Publication Date

December 8, 2009

DOI

10.1503/cmaj.091164

ISSN

0820-3946