From the time of my undergraduate, government summer internships in Washington, and on through a career in nutrition and biomedical research, my consciousness has always been about scientific papers. First, it was reading those papers published by others, and then writing and publishing those from my own research, and finally moving on to evaluating and commenting on the suitability of those by other authors not yet published; the latter was in the context of peer review. In relation to the paraphrased header quotation, however, I clearly am in the third (thrustupon) category as an Editor-in-Chief (EIC). I was always gleefully in the bridesmaid—perhaps better groomsman—position with regard to Editorial Boards, having been on the inaugural mastheads of Nutrition Research (1981), Nutrition (1983), and the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1990), and then on—and sometimes off again— the EBs of up to a score of scientific journals, encyclopedias, or limited series. Never had it crossed my mind, however, to seek to contract nuptials at the EIC altar. If ever there was a Reluctant Dragon who would rather spend his time in the comfortable confines of his research cavern in Guatemala in analysis and writing than to enter the lists of an editorial office, it was yours truly.

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从我在华盛顿的本科、政府暑期实习到营养和生物医学研究的职业生涯，我的意识一直是关于科学论文的。首先是阅读别人发表的论文，然后是我自己研究的写作和发表，最后是评估和评论其他作者尚未发表的论文的适用性；后者是在同行审查的背景下进行的。然而，关于转述的标题引用，我显然属于第三（thrustupon）类别的主编（EIC）。我总是兴高采烈地担任伴娘——也许是更好的伴郎——关于编辑委员会的职位，曾在营养研究（1981）、营养（1983）、和《亚太临床营养学杂志》（1990 年），然后打开（有时再次关闭）多达数十种科学期刊、百科全书或有限系列的 EB。然而，我从未想过要在 EIC 祭坛上签订婚礼合同。如果有一只不情愿的龙宁愿花时间在危地马拉的研究洞穴中进行分析和写作，也不愿进入编辑部的名单，那真的是你的。