How to write a paper and get your work published ndash part 2

Aspiring and Inspiring Respiratory Researchers Programme PCRS-UK Conference

Thursday 13th October 2016

Dr Paul StephensonOld Bridge Surgery Looe Cornwall

Joint Editor-in-Chief npj Primary Care Respiratory MedicineHon Clinical Research Fellow Allergy and Respiratory

Research Group The University of Edinburgh

Yoursquove submitted your paperhellip

Brainstorm ndash what do you think referees and editors are looking for

Making an initial decision to send out to referees the Editor-in-Chief or

Handling editor

Is the paper relevant to the journalrsquos readership

Is it good science

Does it add to the literature

Is it likely to get cited

Are the authors known

Has it got international relevance

What are referees looking for Ie critical appraisal

Isare the research question(s) clearly set out

Is the methodology appropriate for the aims

Are the subject numbers high enough ie is the paper powered to show the required results

Are the controls appropriate

Is there any obviousnot so obvious source of bias

Are the results correct and presented clearly Are the statistics correct

Discussion ndash is it fair clear self-critical Does it discuss appropriately the strengthsweaknesses of the study

Responding to refereesrsquo comments ndashpaper accepted subject to major or

minor revision

Take each comment in turn and respond appropriately

Make highlighted changes to the text

If you disagree or canrsquot make changes politely explain why (ldquoWe didnrsquot collect that data owing to funding limitationshelliprdquo)

Seek advice from your supervisorhead of department

Rejection

Donrsquot be disheartened ndash it happens to us allhellip

Is it rejection but with an invited re-submission or outright rejection

Try to find out the reasons Many journals will enclose refereesrsquo and the editorrsquos comments

If a re-submission is invited ndash fine Make changes to the manuscript

If not incorporate any available comments and re-submit elsewhere

Remember

Nearly all journal editors are weighed down with far too many manuscript submissions and a reasonably high rejection rate is seen as the mark of a high quality journalhellip

Perseverance

And GOOD LUCK

Pitfalls ndash where authors go wrong

Pitfalls

Original Research

Quality

Study Design

Unjustified conclusions or statements

Failure to address refereesrsquoeditorsrsquo concerns

Ghost authorship

Plagiarism

Duplicate or lsquoredundantrsquo publication

Follow the authorship rules

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Yoursquove submitted your paperhellip

Brainstorm ndash what do you think referees and editors are looking for

Making an initial decision to send out to referees the Editor-in-Chief or

Handling editor

Is the paper relevant to the journalrsquos readership

Is it good science

Does it add to the literature

Is it likely to get cited

Are the authors known

Has it got international relevance

What are referees looking for Ie critical appraisal

Isare the research question(s) clearly set out

Is the methodology appropriate for the aims

Are the subject numbers high enough ie is the paper powered to show the required results

Are the controls appropriate

Is there any obviousnot so obvious source of bias

Are the results correct and presented clearly Are the statistics correct

Discussion ndash is it fair clear self-critical Does it discuss appropriately the strengthsweaknesses of the study

Responding to refereesrsquo comments ndashpaper accepted subject to major or

minor revision

Take each comment in turn and respond appropriately

Make highlighted changes to the text

If you disagree or canrsquot make changes politely explain why (ldquoWe didnrsquot collect that data owing to funding limitationshelliprdquo)

Seek advice from your supervisorhead of department

Rejection

Donrsquot be disheartened ndash it happens to us allhellip

Is it rejection but with an invited re-submission or outright rejection

Try to find out the reasons Many journals will enclose refereesrsquo and the editorrsquos comments

If a re-submission is invited ndash fine Make changes to the manuscript

If not incorporate any available comments and re-submit elsewhere

Remember

Nearly all journal editors are weighed down with far too many manuscript submissions and a reasonably high rejection rate is seen as the mark of a high quality journalhellip

Perseverance

And GOOD LUCK

Pitfalls ndash where authors go wrong

Pitfalls

Original Research

Quality

Study Design

Unjustified conclusions or statements

Failure to address refereesrsquoeditorsrsquo concerns

Ghost authorship

Plagiarism

Duplicate or lsquoredundantrsquo publication

Follow the authorship rules

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Making an initial decision to send out to referees the Editor-in-Chief or

Handling editor

Is the paper relevant to the journalrsquos readership

Is it good science

Does it add to the literature

Is it likely to get cited

Are the authors known

Has it got international relevance

What are referees looking for Ie critical appraisal

Isare the research question(s) clearly set out

Is the methodology appropriate for the aims

Are the subject numbers high enough ie is the paper powered to show the required results

Are the controls appropriate

Is there any obviousnot so obvious source of bias

Are the results correct and presented clearly Are the statistics correct

Discussion ndash is it fair clear self-critical Does it discuss appropriately the strengthsweaknesses of the study

Responding to refereesrsquo comments ndashpaper accepted subject to major or

minor revision

Take each comment in turn and respond appropriately

Make highlighted changes to the text

If you disagree or canrsquot make changes politely explain why (ldquoWe didnrsquot collect that data owing to funding limitationshelliprdquo)

Seek advice from your supervisorhead of department

Rejection

Donrsquot be disheartened ndash it happens to us allhellip

Is it rejection but with an invited re-submission or outright rejection

Try to find out the reasons Many journals will enclose refereesrsquo and the editorrsquos comments

If a re-submission is invited ndash fine Make changes to the manuscript

If not incorporate any available comments and re-submit elsewhere

Remember

Nearly all journal editors are weighed down with far too many manuscript submissions and a reasonably high rejection rate is seen as the mark of a high quality journalhellip

Perseverance

And GOOD LUCK

Pitfalls ndash where authors go wrong

Pitfalls

Original Research

Quality

Study Design

Unjustified conclusions or statements

Failure to address refereesrsquoeditorsrsquo concerns

Ghost authorship

Plagiarism

Duplicate or lsquoredundantrsquo publication

Follow the authorship rules

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

What are referees looking for Ie critical appraisal

Isare the research question(s) clearly set out

Is the methodology appropriate for the aims

Are the subject numbers high enough ie is the paper powered to show the required results

Are the controls appropriate

Is there any obviousnot so obvious source of bias

Are the results correct and presented clearly Are the statistics correct

Discussion ndash is it fair clear self-critical Does it discuss appropriately the strengthsweaknesses of the study

Responding to refereesrsquo comments ndashpaper accepted subject to major or

minor revision

Take each comment in turn and respond appropriately

Make highlighted changes to the text

If you disagree or canrsquot make changes politely explain why (ldquoWe didnrsquot collect that data owing to funding limitationshelliprdquo)

Seek advice from your supervisorhead of department

Rejection

Donrsquot be disheartened ndash it happens to us allhellip

Is it rejection but with an invited re-submission or outright rejection

Try to find out the reasons Many journals will enclose refereesrsquo and the editorrsquos comments

If a re-submission is invited ndash fine Make changes to the manuscript

If not incorporate any available comments and re-submit elsewhere

Remember

Nearly all journal editors are weighed down with far too many manuscript submissions and a reasonably high rejection rate is seen as the mark of a high quality journalhellip

Perseverance

And GOOD LUCK

Pitfalls ndash where authors go wrong

Pitfalls

Original Research

Quality

Study Design

Unjustified conclusions or statements

Failure to address refereesrsquoeditorsrsquo concerns

Ghost authorship

Plagiarism

Duplicate or lsquoredundantrsquo publication

Follow the authorship rules

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Responding to refereesrsquo comments ndashpaper accepted subject to major or

minor revision

Take each comment in turn and respond appropriately

Make highlighted changes to the text

If you disagree or canrsquot make changes politely explain why (ldquoWe didnrsquot collect that data owing to funding limitationshelliprdquo)

Seek advice from your supervisorhead of department

Rejection

Donrsquot be disheartened ndash it happens to us allhellip

Is it rejection but with an invited re-submission or outright rejection

Try to find out the reasons Many journals will enclose refereesrsquo and the editorrsquos comments

If a re-submission is invited ndash fine Make changes to the manuscript

If not incorporate any available comments and re-submit elsewhere

Remember

Nearly all journal editors are weighed down with far too many manuscript submissions and a reasonably high rejection rate is seen as the mark of a high quality journalhellip

Perseverance

And GOOD LUCK

Pitfalls ndash where authors go wrong

Pitfalls

Original Research

Quality

Study Design

Unjustified conclusions or statements

Failure to address refereesrsquoeditorsrsquo concerns

Ghost authorship

Plagiarism

Duplicate or lsquoredundantrsquo publication

Follow the authorship rules

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Rejection

Donrsquot be disheartened ndash it happens to us allhellip

Is it rejection but with an invited re-submission or outright rejection

Try to find out the reasons Many journals will enclose refereesrsquo and the editorrsquos comments

If a re-submission is invited ndash fine Make changes to the manuscript

If not incorporate any available comments and re-submit elsewhere

Remember

Nearly all journal editors are weighed down with far too many manuscript submissions and a reasonably high rejection rate is seen as the mark of a high quality journalhellip

Perseverance

And GOOD LUCK

Pitfalls ndash where authors go wrong

Pitfalls

Original Research

Quality

Study Design

Unjustified conclusions or statements

Failure to address refereesrsquoeditorsrsquo concerns

Ghost authorship

Plagiarism

Duplicate or lsquoredundantrsquo publication

Follow the authorship rules

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Remember

Nearly all journal editors are weighed down with far too many manuscript submissions and a reasonably high rejection rate is seen as the mark of a high quality journalhellip

Perseverance

And GOOD LUCK

Pitfalls ndash where authors go wrong

Pitfalls

Original Research

Quality

Study Design

Unjustified conclusions or statements

Failure to address refereesrsquoeditorsrsquo concerns

Ghost authorship

Plagiarism

Duplicate or lsquoredundantrsquo publication

Follow the authorship rules

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Pitfalls ndash where authors go wrong

Pitfalls

Original Research

Quality

Study Design

Unjustified conclusions or statements

Failure to address refereesrsquoeditorsrsquo concerns

Ghost authorship

Plagiarism

Duplicate or lsquoredundantrsquo publication

Follow the authorship rules

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Pitfalls

Original Research

Quality

Study Design

Unjustified conclusions or statements

Failure to address refereesrsquoeditorsrsquo concerns

Ghost authorship

Plagiarism

Duplicate or lsquoredundantrsquo publication

Follow the authorship rules

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Follow the authorship rules

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship and all those who qualify should be listed

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Authorship credit should be based only on

1) substantial contributions to conception and design or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data

2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and

3) final approval of the version to be published

Conditions 1 2 and 3 must all be met

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors websitehttpwwwicmjeorg

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals

Acquisition of funding the collection of data or general supervision of the research group by themselves do not justify authorship

Authors should provide a description of what each contributed and editors should publish that information All others who contributed to the work who are not authors should be named in the Acknowledgments and what they did should be described

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical

Journals Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publicationrsquo on the

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors website

httpwwwicmjeorg

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Ghost authorship

ldquoGhost authorship exists when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript and this role is not mentioned in the manuscript itself WAME considers ghost authorship dishonest and unacceptablerdquo

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)

httpwwwwameorgresourcespoliciesdefinition

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Plagiarism

Searching the literature is good science but donrsquot use the words of others

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Crosscheckhellip

From npjpcrmnaturecom [mailtonpjpcrmnaturecom]To Nelson Sue AnnSubject CrossCheck has finished processing ms NPJPCRM-XXXXX

Dear Ms Nelson Your manuscript has finished CrossCheck processing SCORE 34Word Count 6603Link to access the results

You may click on the above link to see the detailed resultsnpj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Administration

Duplicateredundant publication

Dear Dr Levy

I am writing to you in confidence to point this out

I have come across 2 research reports one published in

2005 and the other in 2007 (in your journal) in different journals with exactly

identical results just analyzing the data slightly differently Is this something

which is OK Both papers and abstracts are attached for your reference Also

the 2007 paper does not reference the 2005 paper I am surprised that this was

not picked up in peer review

Miscellaneous itemshellip

Impact factor calculation

Submission (lsquoreader paysrsquo) versus Open access (lsquoauthor paysrsquo) journals

Open access fees including funding assistance

Impact factor - 1

The Thomson Reuters (ISI) Impact factor is a measure of the average number of citations of scholarly articles published by a journal over a 2-year period

A journal has to apply to be accepted onto the list of those journals which receive an Impact factor ndash ie various quality criteria have to be methellip

Impact factor - 2

The 2015 Impact factor (published in June 2016) =

The total number of citations (in other ISI journals) in 2015 of papers published in 2013 and 2014 the total number of lsquocitable itemsrsquo published in 2013 and 2014

Citable items are lsquosubstantial scholarly articlesrsquo

Non-citable items include Editorials and short commentaries

Submission vs Open access journals

Trend towards open access publications ndashgreater transparency publication of all trial results wider readership (Wellcome Trust now insists on open access publication) eg PLOS Med PLOS One BMJ Open ERJ Open Biomed Central journals The Nature Partner Journals

Compare NEJM ERJ Resp Med Thorax BMJ

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

A Nature Partner Journal

ldquoNature Partner Journals are an online-only open access series of Nature Research journals published by Springer Nature in partnership with global academic institutions centres of excellence philanthropic funders and membership associationsrdquo

Accessing funds for open access Springer Nature open access funding support

service ndash a free open access support service

Information on the open access funds available and how to complete a funding application

Directs you to the correct open access funding co-ordinator at your institution or funding body

Provides evidence demonstrating the benefits of open access to support your application

Personalized advice for your institution or funding body

Advice about compliance with funders and institutions open access policies

Discussion

Question and Answer session

Miscellaneous itemshellip

Impact factor calculation

Submission (lsquoreader paysrsquo) versus Open access (lsquoauthor paysrsquo) journals

Open access fees including funding assistance

Impact factor - 1

The Thomson Reuters (ISI) Impact factor is a measure of the average number of citations of scholarly articles published by a journal over a 2-year period

A journal has to apply to be accepted onto the list of those journals which receive an Impact factor ndash ie various quality criteria have to be methellip

Impact factor - 2

The 2015 Impact factor (published in June 2016) =

The total number of citations (in other ISI journals) in 2015 of papers published in 2013 and 2014 the total number of lsquocitable itemsrsquo published in 2013 and 2014

Citable items are lsquosubstantial scholarly articlesrsquo

Non-citable items include Editorials and short commentaries

Submission vs Open access journals

Trend towards open access publications ndashgreater transparency publication of all trial results wider readership (Wellcome Trust now insists on open access publication) eg PLOS Med PLOS One BMJ Open ERJ Open Biomed Central journals The Nature Partner Journals

Compare NEJM ERJ Resp Med Thorax BMJ

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

A Nature Partner Journal

ldquoNature Partner Journals are an online-only open access series of Nature Research journals published by Springer Nature in partnership with global academic institutions centres of excellence philanthropic funders and membership associationsrdquo

Accessing funds for open access Springer Nature open access funding support

service ndash a free open access support service

Information on the open access funds available and how to complete a funding application

Directs you to the correct open access funding co-ordinator at your institution or funding body

Provides evidence demonstrating the benefits of open access to support your application

Personalized advice for your institution or funding body

Advice about compliance with funders and institutions open access policies

Discussion

Question and Answer session

Impact factor - 1

The Thomson Reuters (ISI) Impact factor is a measure of the average number of citations of scholarly articles published by a journal over a 2-year period

A journal has to apply to be accepted onto the list of those journals which receive an Impact factor ndash ie various quality criteria have to be methellip

Impact factor - 2

The 2015 Impact factor (published in June 2016) =

The total number of citations (in other ISI journals) in 2015 of papers published in 2013 and 2014 the total number of lsquocitable itemsrsquo published in 2013 and 2014

Citable items are lsquosubstantial scholarly articlesrsquo

Non-citable items include Editorials and short commentaries

Submission vs Open access journals

Trend towards open access publications ndashgreater transparency publication of all trial results wider readership (Wellcome Trust now insists on open access publication) eg PLOS Med PLOS One BMJ Open ERJ Open Biomed Central journals The Nature Partner Journals

Compare NEJM ERJ Resp Med Thorax BMJ

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

A Nature Partner Journal

ldquoNature Partner Journals are an online-only open access series of Nature Research journals published by Springer Nature in partnership with global academic institutions centres of excellence philanthropic funders and membership associationsrdquo

Accessing funds for open access Springer Nature open access funding support

service ndash a free open access support service

Information on the open access funds available and how to complete a funding application

Directs you to the correct open access funding co-ordinator at your institution or funding body

Provides evidence demonstrating the benefits of open access to support your application

Personalized advice for your institution or funding body

Advice about compliance with funders and institutions open access policies

Discussion

Question and Answer session

Impact factor - 2

The 2015 Impact factor (published in June 2016) =

The total number of citations (in other ISI journals) in 2015 of papers published in 2013 and 2014 the total number of lsquocitable itemsrsquo published in 2013 and 2014

Citable items are lsquosubstantial scholarly articlesrsquo

Non-citable items include Editorials and short commentaries

Submission vs Open access journals

Trend towards open access publications ndashgreater transparency publication of all trial results wider readership (Wellcome Trust now insists on open access publication) eg PLOS Med PLOS One BMJ Open ERJ Open Biomed Central journals The Nature Partner Journals

Compare NEJM ERJ Resp Med Thorax BMJ

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

A Nature Partner Journal

ldquoNature Partner Journals are an online-only open access series of Nature Research journals published by Springer Nature in partnership with global academic institutions centres of excellence philanthropic funders and membership associationsrdquo

Accessing funds for open access Springer Nature open access funding support

service ndash a free open access support service

Information on the open access funds available and how to complete a funding application

Directs you to the correct open access funding co-ordinator at your institution or funding body

Provides evidence demonstrating the benefits of open access to support your application

Personalized advice for your institution or funding body

Advice about compliance with funders and institutions open access policies

Discussion

Question and Answer session

Submission vs Open access journals

Trend towards open access publications ndashgreater transparency publication of all trial results wider readership (Wellcome Trust now insists on open access publication) eg PLOS Med PLOS One BMJ Open ERJ Open Biomed Central journals The Nature Partner Journals

Compare NEJM ERJ Resp Med Thorax BMJ

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

A Nature Partner Journal

ldquoNature Partner Journals are an online-only open access series of Nature Research journals published by Springer Nature in partnership with global academic institutions centres of excellence philanthropic funders and membership associationsrdquo

Accessing funds for open access Springer Nature open access funding support

service ndash a free open access support service

Information on the open access funds available and how to complete a funding application

Directs you to the correct open access funding co-ordinator at your institution or funding body

Provides evidence demonstrating the benefits of open access to support your application

Personalized advice for your institution or funding body

Advice about compliance with funders and institutions open access policies

Discussion

Question and Answer session

npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine

A Nature Partner Journal

ldquoNature Partner Journals are an online-only open access series of Nature Research journals published by Springer Nature in partnership with global academic institutions centres of excellence philanthropic funders and membership associationsrdquo

Accessing funds for open access Springer Nature open access funding support

service ndash a free open access support service

Information on the open access funds available and how to complete a funding application

Directs you to the correct open access funding co-ordinator at your institution or funding body

Provides evidence demonstrating the benefits of open access to support your application

Personalized advice for your institution or funding body

Advice about compliance with funders and institutions open access policies

Discussion

Question and Answer session

Accessing funds for open access Springer Nature open access funding support

service ndash a free open access support service

Information on the open access funds available and how to complete a funding application

Directs you to the correct open access funding co-ordinator at your institution or funding body

Provides evidence demonstrating the benefits of open access to support your application

Personalized advice for your institution or funding body

Advice about compliance with funders and institutions open access policies

Discussion

Question and Answer session

Discussion

Question and Answer session