Don’t become their prey
How authors can spot predatory journals ICMJE committee members recently published an editorial about how to recognize and avoid predatory or ‘pseudo’ scientific journals, co-hosted in the Annals of Internal …
Parenting your Peer Reviewers
Put on your parenting hat next time you’re responding to peer review feedback for a scientific manuscript, and see if you get results!
The Uncanny Valley of Scientific Writing – GenAI in the Wild
Warning: None of this content was written by GenAI. On a quick glance, scientific writing by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can seem to be good. But if you look closely …
Don’t Believe the Hype – Using Artificial Intelligence in Medical Writing
AI is a new tool that can (and should) be leveraged to speed up some specific parts of the writing process that can be automated – saving time and mental bandwidth for the parts of the process that need idea generation and critical analysis. AI won’t do an expert job writing your manuscript for you 🙁
Write a Manuscript from a Grant Application
Agnella and Meg Bouvier discuss grant applications vs. manuscripts on a livestream.
Highlights of GPP 2022
The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) just announced that the latest iteration of their Good Publication Practice document (GPP 2022) for industry-sponsored medical publications is available. Read on for what’s new and what’s changed in the latest guideline.
10 Tips for Scientific Publications
Most researchers are familiar with the “IMRaD” format for scientific publications (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion). Though this is the order in which the sections usually appear in print, you …
Medical Writers Add Value
Want data to support hiring a medical writer? Peer-reviewed articles receiving medical writing support had better adherence to data reporting guidelines and were judged by reviewers to have higher-quality written …
Is it Retracted? Check Before You Cite.
It’s rare, but it happens. A very small fraction (about 4 in 10,000) of peer-reviewed manuscripts are retracted – papers that are withdrawn from their original publication. Some are retracted …
Less Text, More Pictures – Visual Abstracts
In the fast-paced world in which we live, it seems that nobody has time to read a full research article any more. With so much reading done on mobile screens …