Chapter 450 The editorial department is here! (Please subscribe)

Author: A lancet

Chapter 450 The editorial department is here! (Please subscribe)

The earth is round, and at the same time point, half of it is destined to sleep late at night, while the other half is hard working.

JAMA's editorial department, Editor Kress is just one of them.

As editors of top journals and magazines, they are responsible for not only reviewing, accepting and rejecting manuscripts, but also reviewing manuscripts that may be published in detail, word for word.

It is no exaggeration to say that there are at least hundreds of articles submitted to JAMA every day. This review process is very tedious.

However, as one of the four major medical journals, JAMA must try its best to select high-quality articles for publication and review the submissions in detail. This is what must be done.

After finishing lunch, Cleese continued to open the magazine's submission backend.

Then I selected the first draft of one of the earliest articles that had not yet been reviewed and reviewed it.

Although they are the earliest and have not yet had time to review, in fact, they are all articles sent a day ago. There are at least dozens of editors in the editorial department doing cross-review work.

Other editors are reviewing submissions from yesterday or even the day before yesterday.

For articles that cannot be published, you can choose to reject them after scanning them a few times.

But when I encounter a good article, sometimes it is very difficult to review it in one day. Unless there are structural errors or obvious flaws, the manuscript will be rejected directly.

When reviewing article submissions, the first natural step is to start with the title.

recovery unit?

Rehabilitation department comes to JAMA?

What do you think of this?

This question seemed a bit confusing. After reading the question, Cleese suddenly frowned.

Then I looked at the author and the country where it was submitted.

China.

Chinese.

Kress almost had a rough impression of this article in his mind.

To be honest, manuscripts from China will be labeled as colored in all SCI journals. After all, China is not the only country in the world where some academic falsehoods occur.

However, in the past one or two decades, the phenomenon of academic fraud has mostly come from China, which is in a period of growth.

And this kind of academic fraud is banned repeatedly.

Some plagiarize, some steal results, some are at odds with each other between different research groups, and some research groups don’t even get ethics approval, and then send it in, and then make up for the ethics approval results at the end.

What a mess.

Therefore, many editors, in addition to paying attention to some Chinese scholars they are familiar with, will look at ordinary authors with colored eyes.

However, with a rigorous and patient attitude.

Cleese was still patient and read through it carefully.

After reading the abstract, he found that this article seemed interesting.

It's just that the writing and sentence making of this line are quite immature, and some of the grammatical expressions are not particularly authentic, but the content inside does interest Kress.

Read on carefully.

After reading the introduction, Kress was immediately attracted.

Whether an article is well written or not depends on the discussion.

Whether it can attract people depends on the introduction.

The writing style of this introduction is very tempting. At least, Kress himself was attracted by the arguments and arguments in the introduction.

Deep layer by layer, quite layered,

Just like a hook, it will attract you to read on, it is interesting and detailed.

After strong logical skills and finding suitable arguments, you can put forward interesting arguments.

This is a very good paper.

Read articles like this.

It will give people a comfortable feeling.

Well, it's just comfortable.

Just reading the introduction, Kress felt that even if this article could not be published in JAMA, it would be quite good to publish it in a sub-journal under JAMA.

Then, Kleis began to read the methods and results carefully.

These two parts are the author's own explanation of the entire process, so the readability is actually not great. You just need to find out whether there are any errors and whether it is rigorous enough.

Cleese read it at first, nodding his head.

Then his whole head gradually began to run out. Although he did not have to review the process of results and the correctness of the data in the article, the huge tabular data, the complex and numerous angles, and the physical symbol Newton of force

N…

Even after sorting out, some of the statistical charts are, on the whole, very nice and detailed, and very rich in content.

But Kress felt that these charts definitely exceeded the amount of information that could be expressed in the entire article.

Then I finally finished flipping through the first page, and then looked at the second and third pages.

Cleese started pulling his hair!

Oh, My God, who are you kidding me?

So many statistics?

Hundreds, thousands of raw data?

There are thousands of pieces of data after sorting?

Can anyone tell me who is joking with me? Is it a chart made by a large team in the data department?

Is this a very huge subject?

When he saw this, Cleese pulled the article to the top and looked at the author's name.

Zhou, Cheng;

Kress felt that this person should not be an unknown person. An unknown person should not submit a manuscript here.

So, he began to search for the two of them.

First of all, I saw the articles published by Zhou Cheng. There were quite a few articles...

So Claes immersed himself in it.

…

Five hours later.

After Cleese read the discussion.

Cleese felt instantly.

Forget it, let’s just submit the article directly. To review this article, you must ask for help. If you don’t ask for help, you will become a fool.

So, Kleiss sent this article directly to the editor's mailbox, and then marked it: "A very interesting article, with no structural errors and strong logic. It is recommended that it be sent directly to external review."

After finishing this article, Cleese started to read the next article. As a result, the more he read, the angrier he became.

He kept yelling and cursing, "What are they writing?"

Is there any logic here?

The key structure is not clear yet.

…

The editor-in-chief is the person in charge of a magazine and is responsible for reviewing and sending out articles for external review so that experts in the same field can give professional opinions.

However, today, Wells had a headache.

Not every day, articles that meet the requirements are sent to his mailbox.

But for some reason today, something strange happened.

Not to mention that two articles were sent at the same time, and the authors of these two articles are the same person.

If this was a joke, then Wells would still wonder if today was April Fools' Day. However, the fact that the two articles were submitted by different editors proved that it was not a joke.

Instead, there were two editors in my editorial department. On the same day, they took a fancy to two different articles by the same author, and both of them intended to recommend them for publication.

After thinking about this, Wells began to browse the articles.

Then Wells fell into it.

Five hours later, Wells felt like he was going crazy.
To be continued...