BIOL 2000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: List Of Fables Characters, Soundness, Plos Biology
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Peer-reviewed publications: manuscripts that have been found to be sound and important by scientific community: allows others to learn from your results, preve(cid:374)ts (cid:858)(cid:271)ad(cid:859) s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e fro(cid:373) (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g pu(cid:271)lished, demonstrates ability and productivity by scientists. Before submission: write paper, revise, decide on journal, format and write cover letter, may have to revise multiple times. Score sheet uses following parameters: scope, research objectives, study design and methodology, soundness of results. Interpretation: originality and significance, existing literature, overall presentation, policy requirements. There are journals that target broad audiences and journals that publich only in very specific fields. Some are published by corporations and some by scientific societies. Some publish mostly reviews, others research papers. Most are in text but some post exclusively online. Some are open access and some are subscriber only. Nature and science: 10% acceptance rate, rejection usually happens before review, 80% of papers are declined without review, rejection usually because of too focused topic or lack of novelty.
