Matters needing attention in seven major processes of publishing papers in medical SCI journals
Scientific research scholars can't do without SCI papers, which are the display of scientific research success and the academic pursuit of every scholar who is keen on learning. How to write a good SCI paper and submit it successfully is a problem that every scholar needs to seriously consider.
The following compilation of Huasheng Medicine will share some information you need to know before publishing medical SCI papers.
Submission is usually exciting. After such a long period of experimental writing, I can finally share it with the public, hoping to get everyone's approval. However, in the process of submitting medical SCI papers, there are always various problems.
1. failed to fully comply with the instructions for journal authors.
The consultation put forward by the authors shows that they have not read or followed the instructions of journal authors, which is the most common problem of AMA Committee. Therefore, before submitting a paper, the author must browse the author's notice of the submitting journal to ensure that the content of his paper is consistent with the journal.
2. Multi-contribution for one manuscript
An author cannot submit the same paper to more than two journals at the same time, even if it is part of the paper. This provision even applies to local and international journals with two different readership groups. Although many authors have not noticed it, it is against publishing ethics to publish it repeatedly. Moreover, if two journals are included at the same time, it will also cause unnecessary controversy, so the author must contribute a manuscript in the delivery of the paper.
3. Inconsistent data
The numbers mentioned in the article are often different from the data in the chart or not added to the chart. This involves the unification of data in the process of writing papers. No matter the data in the text or the data in the chart, as long as the content discussed is the same, of course, the data is the same, so there must be no such inconsistent data.
4. Failure to protect the patient's identity
Medical case reports usually have some photos or words that may reveal the identity of patients to readers. From the published ethics, this is extremely inappropriate, and the patient has signed the informed consent form, so the author should ensure that the patient's identity is not recognized. Therefore, in the content with patient identity, the author should use the necessary code or name to protect the patient's information.
5. Errors in references
Omitting references, the discrepancy between references and the reference numbers in the text, and typographical errors in references are another common problem. Omission and incorrect references will affect the credibility of the paper. When others search for documents through your document index, they find that they can't match the content. Such literature citation is not only meaningless, but also makes others doubt the authenticity of the cited literature.
Exaggerate a conclusion
Although strong conclusions are very important, the editors found that the data did not fully support these exaggerated conclusions. The writing requirement of the paper is seeking truth from facts, so it is also true in the writing of the conclusion. Exaggerated conclusions are not only meaningless, but also make readers consider the value of the paper.
7. Questioning that text editing is too rash.
When the text editor returns the revised manuscript, he will attach an explanation letter to explain the reason, but the author often questions the revision of the text editor without knowing the reason. In fact, the reason why the text editor will propose amendments is because his paper may have problems in these aspects or it is just not clear enough, but no matter what the reason is, we should not question it easily. We should make sure there is no such problem first, and then make the necessary explanation.
When submitting medical SCI papers, we should also pay attention to the following issues: the filling of forms such as copyright, conflict of interest and approval by ethics committee is very important in the publishing process, but the author always feels that this work is complicated, and often submits incomplete or wrong forms, which leads to repeated communication between the editorial department and the author, thus delaying the publishing process of the papers.
There are still many problems to be understood in writing and publishing medical papers. I hope that scholars can spend more time reading literature after work and get to know some cutting-edge information in the industry. Only in this way can your research paper be innovative and timely.