科研人想要成功发表一篇SCI,往往要经历写作、投稿、等待这一系列漫长的过程,当在收到一篇文章返修意见的时候心里别提有多激动了。 收到返修意见说明文章已经被审稿人初步认可,为了让自己的心血不被浪费,文章能顺利发表,我们要花时间和经历去回复审稿意见,这就要求大家除了具备专业性之外,还要注意回复的语气、格式等细节 本篇文章笔者 手把手教各位科研人如何高情商回复 Reviewers ,很纯的干货,认真读完相信你一定有所收获! 1. 阅读返修意见 首先要认真阅读全部审稿意见,一般每篇文章会有 2-3 个审稿人的意见,每位审稿人的意见数量可能一两条到十几条不等。每位审稿人的意见一般会逐条列出。在阅读退修意见的过程中,我们要清楚目的,首先是弄懂每一条意见,充分 get 审稿人的要求。 其次要对所有意见有一个归纳整理,分清主次。 最后要注意除文章内容之外的一些要求,如文章修回的 deadline,补充完善作者信息等。 2. 制定回复策略 当认真读完审稿人意见之后,建议大家将所有意见复制粘贴到 word 文档,对所列意见逐条分析。根据笔者经验,所有意见可以根据难易程度分为简单、复杂、困难这三种。 下面笔者将以一些既往文章收到过的退修意见为例来向大家说明: 简单的一般是改正错别词、语法,规范格式,补充缩写词全称,提高图片质量,等等。如图 1: 图1 复杂的一般指我们通过查阅文献之后即可用事实依据解答审稿人的疑问,比如为什么选择某个药物、某个实验对象等,因为审稿人有时不一定是你所研究领域的专家,所以我们用事实说话解开审稿人的疑惑也就成功回答了这类问题。如图 2: 图2 困难的一般是指审稿人对文章涉及到的方法、结果、结论等的质疑,这些就需要各位认真斟酌,谨慎回答,切记要有理有据。如图 3: 图3 3. 编辑回复内容 分析过审稿人意见之后,我们就可以着手回复了,下面几条划重点啦: (1)我们注意要对所有的退修意见逐条进行回复 在每条意见下面写上相应回复内容,一般回复的结构为:感谢审稿人的意见+已修改的内容。可以写感谢审稿人善意的提醒/严谨的态度/专业的意见等等,表达出我们虚心学习的态度。 (2)在回复的正文内容的首和尾要分别有一段前言和一段总结 回复的语气一定要诚恳且礼貌,在内容中除了要说明修改的内容之外,还要体现感谢编辑和审稿人对文章的认可以及辛苦的工作。 (3)在回复内容的最后写上「如果有任何问题请随时联系」类似的话 这样既显示了我们认真的态度,也间接表达了我们期盼回复的心情。 (4)如有引用文献回答审稿人问题的,需在回答内容后面附上所参考文献的 DOI 编号,论点+论据会更能使审稿人信服。 下面图 4 为笔者常用的回复审稿人意见的模板,提供给大家参考。 图4 虽然每个人的稿件情况不同,回复信也都是千差万别,但多多少少还是有一定模板性的,尤其是对于第一次遇到这种情况的研究生朋友们,可以先从模板开始熟悉一下此类回复信的大体内容和形式。 模板1:精简版本 下面这个是我自己以前写的一个模板,拿出来分享给大家。 Dear Editor XX and Reviewers, Thanks very much for taking your time to review this manuscript. I really appreciate all your comments and suggestions! Please find my itemized responses in below and my revisions/corrections in the re-submitted files. (这一段基本上是套话) Thanks again! 下面就开始回复文章的审稿意见了,一般首先是回复期刊编辑的整体意见: SUGGESTIONS FROM EDITOR(注意这一段要把编辑原始的建议粘贴在这里,不能只有回应) Your response to the general comments from the editor 接下来是逐条回应审稿人的建议: COMMENTS TO THE AUTHOR: Reviewer #1: Response to the questions one by one Reviewer #2: Response to the questions one by one 模板2: 完整版本 这个模板是完整版本,保留了很多逐条回答审稿人的常用短语和句式,值得收藏和学习! Dear Editor, Dear reviewers Thank you for your letter dated February 22. We were pleased to know that our work was rated as potentially acceptable for publication in Journal, subject to adequate revision. We thank the reviewers for the time and effort that they have put into reviewing the previous version of the manuscript. Their suggestions have enabled us to improve our work. Based on the instructions provided in your letter, we uploaded the file of the revised manuscript. Accordingly, we have uploaded a copy of the original manuscript with all the changes highlighted by using the track changes mode in MS Word. Appended to this letter is our point-by-point response to the comments raised by the reviewers. The comments are reproduced and our responses are given directly afterward in a different color (red). We would like also to thank you for allowing us to resubmit a revised copy of the manuscript. We hope that the revised manuscript is accepted for publication in the Journal of Mountain Science. Sincerely, XXXXXXX (同样是套话,这个模板写了这么长。。。虽然我不是很喜欢,但是适合拿来逐句学习,为己所用) Reviewer 1: Comments to the Author 这个审稿人的意见分为两部分: 第一部分是一般性的评论和修改建议(多为比较大的问题)。 Here are the general comments from the reviewer... We thank the reviewer for the very interesting comment. In fact… Regarding the suggestion about the methods, we changed this part… Another issue on the methodological section is that... We are grateful for the suggestion. To be more clear and in accordance with the reviewer concerns, we have added a brief description as follows: “ 接下来是第二部分“小的建议”,也就是需要逐条回复的那种,一般是用词用句的修改。 Minor comments: The title is too long, I suggest shortening. Modified throughout the text according to the comment (Line 20, page 1).Thank you for the title suggested. The precedent version of the title has been replaced, becoming... Line 25, page 1… Modified throughout the text according to the comment (Line 20, page 1). Line 18, page 2… We have modified the sentence according to the previous comment (Line 30, page 2). Line 33, page 3… Thank you for underlining this deficiency. This section was revised and modified according to the information showed in the work suggested by the reviewer (Line 41, page 3). Line 59, page 5… This phrase was modified according to the comment (Line 30, page 5). Lines 9-24, page 6… Thank you for the suggestion. We have added the information required as explained above (Lines 6-28, page 6). Line 11, page 6… This sentence was rephrased according to the comment (Line 8, page 6). Line 35, page 13: “exit section”->”outlet” (please check also throughout the text, e.g. at line 54, page 13) We have modified this expression throughout the text according to the comment. 论文的发表终究还是取决于科研硬实力,以上技巧和经验都只是锦上添花,在论文发表方面助大家一臂之力,让我们的稿件更容易被录用。最后祝每个科研人科研丰收,生活美满!