Scientific writing for impact factor journals
Abstract
Publish or Perish. This old adage illustrates the importance of scientific communication; essential to research, it also represents a strategic sector for each country's competitiveness. An often-neglected topic, scientific communication is of vital importance, with new information technologies accelerating and profoundly changing how knowledge is disseminated. The necessity of optimally disseminating experts' findings has also become crucial to researchers, institutes and universities alike, which has prompted the recent advent of Impact Factors for the evaluation and financing of research, the goal being for scientific knowledge to be equally distributed to a very broad audience, especially to the media, entrepreneurs and sociopolitical players. This handbook presents the "golden rules" for publishing scientific articles. In order to do away with major recurring errors, the author explains how to easily structure an article and offers support for the typical mistakes made by most scientists, tips on how to make the style more academic of more general to fit your intended readership and, in the book's closing section, suggests new publishing techniques of the Internet age such as the micro-article, which allows researchers to focus their findings into a single innovative point. The major principles presented can be applied to a broad range of documents such as theses, industry reports, publicity texts, letters of intent, CVs/resumes, blogs and press releases, as all of these documents involve presenting information on advances, discoveries, innovations, or changes to our previous knowledge.
Keywords
scientific writing and communication
peer review
original article
social media
impact factor
scholarly journal
article rejection
micro-article
thesis
blog
review article
PhD student
novelty
culture and writing
science dissemination
instructions for authors
review report
abbreviation
journal topics
foreign speakers
non-English natives
repetition
abstract
introduction
methods
results and discussion
figures and tables
references
hypothesis reformulation
randomness
editorial process
article selection
proofs
patent
tweeter
facebook
youtube
cover letter
CV
press release
training report
industrial report
expert report
marketing material