28 June 2013
A reviewer for a top-ranked geoscience journal says that a new research paper by Australian Synchrotron users could encourage many more geoscientists to use synchrotron techniques.
“Although synchrotron sources are rare and under-used by geoscientists in general, here is an application that may tempt many more to use it. It may be that in 20 years this will be viewed as a classic first paper describing a technique that has become widely used by then ... my estimation is that acceptance and publication ... would be a major coup for the journal.”
These comments from an anonymous reviewer make it clear that the paper by associate professors Andrew Berry and Greg Yaxley and PhD candidate Brendan Hanger, recently published in the top-ranked earth science journal Geology, is a cut above the typical research paper.