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Associate Editor (associate + editor)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Medical Sciences	75%

Selected Abstracts

From the Associate Editor for Biological Anthropology

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2008
AGUSTÍN FUENTES
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

A Farewell to Thomas C. Rosenthal, MD, Editor, and Andrew Danzo, Associate Editor

THE JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, Issue 4 2009
The Journal of Rural Health Editorial Board
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

1344: The author, the reviewer and the associate editor: a literary drama triangle

ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA, Issue 2010
T KIVELÄ
Purpose To provide an insight into interactions between authors, reviewers and editors. Methods Personal experience of the author as a writer, reviewer and associate editor is used to discuss the scholarly interaction involved in having a manuscript reviewed and eventually published. Results The drama triangle is a psychological model of human interaction first described by Karpman. It proposes three ancestral psychological roles which people often take in a social situation: 1. The person who is treated as, or accepts the role of, a victim, 2. the person who pressures or persecutes the victim, and 3. the rescuer, who intervenes to help the situation or the underdog; this role often is one of a mixed or covert motive. The scenario of most novels, plays and movies is based on the drama triangle. Moreover, most of us are neurologically programmed to play any of the three roles. Depending on the context, we will thus - consciously or unconsciously - choose one of them. The roles can consequently also insinuate into the manuscript review process: the author is liable to become the victim and the reviewer the villain; the editorial staff member may then assume the role of the rescuer. Be as it may, the editors should try to identify reviewers whose comments are - often unconsciously - hostile from those whose advice is constructively critical, and then filter these in their targeted advice, keeping a neutral position. Sometimes he may need to guide an author who declares himself a victim or a reviewer who plays rescuer. Conclusion The best way to avoid being trapped in a drama triangle is by being watchful not take one of the three roles. Ideally, all three players work in unison toward a paper which makes best use of the data and of the talent of the authors and reviewers. [source]