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 …
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 …
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 🙁
Agnella and Meg Bouvier discuss grant applications vs. manuscripts on a livestream.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 A very small fraction (about 4 in 10,000) of peer-reviewed manuscripts are retracted – papers that are withdrawn from their original publication.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 …
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 …
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recently updated their guidelines for publishing in the scientific literature. The ICMJE guidelines, or as they’re more formally known “Recommendations for the …
There are many reputable publishers and journals for peer-reviewed manuscripts, many of which offer open access publishing options (what is open access?). There are also many questionable journals out there (so-called “predatory …