How to publish a comment
Mar 10, 2011
Bishop Hill in Journals

H/T to DI for this article by Rick Trebino, a physicist from Georgia Tech.

...in this article, I’ll share with you my recent experience publishing a Comment, so you can, too. There are just a few simple steps:

1. Read a paper that has a mistake in it.
2. Write and submit a Comment, politely correcting the mistake.
3. Enjoy your Comment in print along with the authors’ equally polite Reply, basking in the joy of having participated in the glorious scientific process and of the new friends you’ve made—

the authors whose research you’ve greatly assisted.

Ha ha! You didn’t really believe that, did you?
Read the whole thing.
Update on Mar 11, 2011 by Registered CommenterBishop Hill

Some users were reporting a virus at the Scribd document linked. I've changed to an alternative site (H/T Doug Keenan) but this is not responding at the moment.

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