Several journals have Previews, or News and Views, or whatever they may choose to call an introductory short piece about an article in that journal. This introductory piece is typically written by another scientist in the field.
From my very limited dataset, the scientist writing the Preview was also a reviewer on the paper (presumably, one of the positive ones...) Is this generally true? If I see a Preview, can I usually assume that the author was a reviewer? Or do journals regularly contact still another scientist to read the pre-print and write about it?
15 years ago
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That is true in my experience.
While it is *frequently* the case that a reviewer is the author of the accompanying puff piece, it is not always the case. Sometimes none of the reviewers want to write the puff piece, because they are too busy, not interested, etc. In fact, I recently declined the invitation to write the puff piece for a paper I reviewed because I am too busy, and gave the editor a list of about a half dozen other people who would be good alternate choices.
Also, sometimes these puff pieces appear in a different journal than the one in which the paper itself appears in. For example, the Nature journals sometimes pubish News & Views pieces on papers that appeared in a non-Nature journal. This was the case for one of the papers I published as a post-doc.
Finally, it is worth pointing out that trying to divine who the reviewer(s) of your paper or grant were is a fool's game. Some of the people you think of as "enemies" or "assholes" might review your work favorably, and some of the people who give you reacharounds whenever you see them in person could be trashing your papers and grants every time they get an opportunity.
I've seen a lot of this but other times, even in my own lab (PI is a reviewer for journal but did not review the manuscript).
I have personally written such pieces for papers that I did not review.
A member of Nature's staff (a professional science writer) wrote one of these pieces for a recent article I was an author on.
CPP is exactly right.
If a reviewer is sufficiently enthused, the editor asks him/her. Generally, people like to see their names as authors in Science or Nature, but not always, as nobody cites such pieces. So others get asked, as well.
Generally true in my experience, but not always.
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