There is a list of the most common reasons cited by reviewers for an applications lack of success: Lack of significance to the scientific issue being addressed. Lack of original or new ideas. Proposal of an unrealistically large amount of…
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Problems and concerns commonly cited by reviewers
Tagged with: critical literature, reviewers, scientific issue, shaky data, shaky hypothesis
Posted in Editing, Scientific editing
Posted in Editing, Scientific editing
How to choose the right journal for your manuscript?
Choosing the right journal for a manuscript can be a challenging exercise, and many factors are likely to influence the final decision. Factors involved include the visibility of the journal, the focus of the journal and how well it matches the topic of the manuscript, the…
Tagged with: appropriate journal, citation rates, impact factor, Institute for Scientific Information, journal accessibility, perpetual cycle, portable document format, prepublication, prestige factor, publisher, Recognition Factor, right journal, scientific presentations, sponsoring organizations, sponsoring Society, suitable journal
Posted in Formatting, Impact Factor, Journal Selection, Manuscript format
Posted in Formatting, Impact Factor, Journal Selection, Manuscript format
What is Impact Factor?
The impact factor was devised by ‘Eugene Garfield’, the founder of the ‘Institute for Scientific Information’ (ISI), now part of ‘Thomson Reuters’. Impact factors are calculated yearly for those journals that are indexed in ‘Thomson Reuters’ ‘Journal Citation Reports’ (JCR). JCR provides quantitative…
Tagged with: impact factor, Institute for Scientific Information, JCR, Journal Citation Reports, science journals, Thomson Reuters
Posted in Impact Factor
Posted in Impact Factor
Scientific writing for a target journal
It is beneficial to decide on a target journal during the very early stages of writing an article, rather than first preparing an article and then considering where to send it. Analyze potential journals and choose one. Write your article…
How to Write a Critical Analysis Paper?
Critical writing is not just about acquiring data, memorizing facts, or reiterating what someone else thinks, but is a learned skill that involves active participation by the individual to understand the topic well enough to write a balanced and well communicated paper. In…
Tagged with: bibliographies, Critical Analysis, critical reading, critical writing, delve further, editing process, read critically, think critically
Posted in Medical Writing, Scientific writing, Writing
Posted in Medical Writing, Scientific writing, Writing
