Scientific Research

How to Navigate the Peer Review Process

February 28, 2024

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

You’ve chosen your journal and submitted your paper, but what happens next? Join this hour-long webinar to hear Editors-in-Chief Sabine Kastner (JNeurosci) and Mariela Zirlinger (Neuron) discuss how editors and reviewers are assigned, desk rejections, and responding to reviewer feedback. Attendees are encouraged to submit questions at registration and live during the webinar.

This webinar is part of a series from SfN Journals and Elsevier covering topics related to the publishing process.

Speakers

Sabine Kastner, MD, PhD

Sabine Kastner is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Princeton University and serves as the Scientific Director of Princeton’s neuroimaging facility. Kastner is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Neuroscience. Her research focuses on the neural basis of visual perception, attention, and awareness in the healthy, adult primate brain, in patients with brain lesions and during development. Kastner earned an MD degree from the University of Dusseldorf and a PhD degree in neurophysiology from the University of Göttingen.

Mariela Zirlinger, PhD

Mariela Zirlinger has been an editor with Cell Press since 2011, first as a scientific editor and since 2017 as the Editor-in-Chief of Neuron. She manages manuscript submissions and review article commissions across all areas of neuroscience and oversees the peer-review process. Her scientific training is in mouse genetics, behavior, and molecular and developmental neurobiology. Before joining Neuron, Mariela was a postdoc at Harvard. She completed her Ph.D. in Neurobiology at Caltech, after studying Chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Gail Rodney

Gail M. Rodney is a Senior Publisher for Neuroscience within the Life Sciences & Social Sciences group at Elsevier. She has 25+ years of publishing industry experience with emphasis on scholarly communication and innovation. Her current focus is open science, where she works with researchers, society partners, and peers to find better ways to ensure scientific research is not only more inclusive, collaborative, and transparent, but also accessible to all. Throughout her career she has held many roles and has been responsible for the launch and/or repositioning of a dozen peer-review titles. Gail holds a BA in English and is an enthusiastic alumna of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury.

Who can attend these webinars? This webinar is open access and registration is complimentary.

Will the webinars be available on-demand? Yes, this webinar will be available on demand 1 week from the live broadcast .

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Can I ask the presenters questions? Yes! You can submit any questions before the webinar through the registration form. During the webinar, you can submit questions through the Q&A box.

Will a certificate of attendance be offered for this event? No, SfN does not provide certificates of attendance for webinars.

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