Suzana Herculano-Houzel (1972-) The Human Advantage (2016)
A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
5. Remarkable, but Not Extraordinary
...“The human brain is just a scaled-up primate brain: remarkable, but not special” was our main message-and because we believed it was a big one, we set our sights on the star journals in the field.
And were rejected, again and again, for a variety of reasons. In retrospect, it amuses me to no end that “Equal Numbers of Neuronal and Non-Neuronal Cells Make the Human Brain an Isometrically Scaled-Up Primate Brain,” which has become a highly cited paper (with more than 300 citations in other scientific papers in just five years), and which is commonly mentioned now in the opening lines of many papers on the human brain, was rejected without review by Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., Neuron, and the Journal of Neuroscience-journals that rank among the highest in neuroscience exactly because of how often their papers are cited in the years after the publication.
5. Remarkable, but Not Extraordinary
...“The human brain is just a scaled-up primate brain: remarkable, but not special” was our main message-and because we believed it was a big one, we set our sights on the star journals in the field.
And were rejected, again and again, for a variety of reasons. In retrospect, it amuses me to no end that “Equal Numbers of Neuronal and Non-Neuronal Cells Make the Human Brain an Isometrically Scaled-Up Primate Brain,” which has become a highly cited paper (with more than 300 citations in other scientific papers in just five years), and which is commonly mentioned now in the opening lines of many papers on the human brain, was rejected without review by Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., Neuron, and the Journal of Neuroscience-journals that rank among the highest in neuroscience exactly because of how often their papers are cited in the years after the publication.