Manuscript Review

[coldsweat]

My advisor asked me to write a manuscript review that a journal had requested her to perform. My advisor edited it and checked that she agreed with my criticisms before submitting it. Is there any way I can put this experience on my CV? I ask because technically my advisor is the reviewer of name, not me. I am not looking to pad my CV - there's other things we do for our advisors behind the scenes that are not necessarily on our CV. But I am interested in pursuing academic positions in the future and thought that showing that I have experience reviewing manuscripts could be helpful. But maybe I'm misguided, or hiring committees naturally expect that you have experience reviewing manuscripts without it being on your CV.

 

[thewesternsky]

To be honest, the way this should have been done is:

1) Your advisor checks with the editor to see if it's okay that (s)he does the review in collaboration with a grad student
2) THEN you write the review
3) You both sign
4) You put this on your CV as an "ad hoc reviewer"

Given steps 1-3 weren't done totally transparently, though, I'm not sure if you can do Step 4. Sorry!

 

[AcronymAllergy]

I'd imagine you could potentially say you assisted in reviewing papers under the supervision of your advisor. This sort of thing happens pretty frequently, so most folks will likely know what you're talking about.

 

[Member1928]

I had a heading on my CV for Reviewing & Editorial Experience. Under that I listed such activities as Ad hoc mentored review followed by the year and the name of the journal. I don't like having just one entry under a heading so I would talk to your advisor about perhaps reviewing another manuscript in the not too distant future. I would also make sure that your advisor has permission from the editor to co-reivew the manuscript with a graduate student, as was stated earlier. At that point I would list them both regardless of how your mentor handled the situation previously.

As an aside I removed all the Ad hoc mentored reviews from my CV after internship and before applying to postdoc. It felt a bit to juvenile at that point....

 

[PsychBrownBag]

Totally normal to list "mentored reviewer" next to the journal name in a reviewer experience portion of your CV.

 

[coldsweat]

Thanks everyone for the guidance!

 

[CogNeuroGuy]

My advisor asked me to write a manuscript review that a journal had requested her to perform. My advisor edited it and checked that she agreed with my criticisms before submitting it. Is there any way I can put this experience on my CV? I ask because technically my advisor is the reviewer of name, not me. I am not looking to pad my CV - there's other things we do for our advisors behind the scenes that are not necessarily on our CV. But I am interested in pursuing academic positions in the future and thought that showing that I have experience reviewing manuscripts could be helpful. But maybe I'm misguided, or hiring committees naturally expect that you have experience reviewing manuscripts without it being on your CV.

I also would like to know how this helps someone's CV, especially in application to a doctoral program. My mentor told me that he would be having me review some manuscripts in the next couple of weeks. It looks like providing a subsection within "manuscripts" and labeling it as "ad-hoc reviewer" is the most appropriate way to display this experience. Any thoughts?

 

[AcronymAllergy]

I also would like to know how this helps someone's CV, especially in application to a doctoral program. My mentor told me that he would be having me review some manuscripts in the next couple of weeks. It looks like providing a subsection within "manuscripts" and labeling it as "ad-hoc reviewer" is the most appropriate way to display this experience. Any thoughts?

I personally wouldn't include it in the manuscripts/publications section. The it's structured on mine is that I have a separate section for editorial/review activities, or something like that.