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1 1 T H A N N U A L M E E T I N G O F I S M P P
OPTIMIZING SCIENTIFIC VALUE: SMART AND SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES
TO MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS April 27–29, 2015
Hyatt Regency Crystal City Arlington, VA, USA
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THE PUBLISHING PARTNERSHIP
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Presenters Richard I Shader, MD Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Therapeutics Professor Emeritus, Department of Molecular Physiology and Pharmacology (DMPP) and Department of Psychiatry Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA John G. Ryan, DrPH Editor, Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Other Endocrine Disorders, Clinical Therapeutics Director, Division of Primary Care/Health Services Research and Development, United Health Foundation Center of Excellence at Jefferson Reaves, Sr. Health Center in Overtown, Miami, FL Professor of Family Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL Terry Materese, Executive Publisher Elsevier, Health & Medical Sciences Philadelphia, PA
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Disclaimer
The ideas and opinions presented and discussed
are solely those of the individual faculty members
and should under no circumstances or in any way be considered
to reflect those of their employers or any organizations
of which they may be members.
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Learning Objectives • Learn how manuscripts should be constructed
and assembled for submission to maximize the chances for acceptance
• Recognize the associated or supplemental materials that should be considered as part of a submission process to enhance both the manuscript and authors’ reputation
• Be knowledgeable about the kind of communication and schedule authors should expect and demand
• Understand the post-publication relationship one should develop to maximize the scientific value and reach for each publication
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Why publish?
• Publishing is a key aspect of scientific citizenship
• By carefully describing what you have done and why, you make your work available to the clinical and scientific communities
• By reading about your work, practitioners may be better able to serve their patients or improve service delivery
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About Clinical Therapeutics
• A journal dedicated to the dissemination of reliable and evolving evidence derived from clinical pharmacology and other therapeutic approaches
• Serves an international audience of scientists and clinicians working in a variety of research, academic, and clinical practice settings
clinicaltherapeutics.com
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Writing A Useful Scientific Paper The goal of scientific writing is to provide the scientific community with
• Background that places your efforts in a relevant context
• A clear and easy-to-understand statement of what you learned
• An accurate record of your methods, in sufficient detail to allow replication of your work
• Your interpretation of the impact and significance of your findings
• A discussion of where your work fits into your field of study
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A Few Reflections
• Writing rarely comes easily to scientists
• Scientist-authors must work at writing with the same diligence used in doing scientific efforts
• Good writing must take into account your intended audience
• Include enough so that someone who does not know the field as well as you do will be able to follow your thinking and the details of your experiments, protocols, or procedures
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AUDIENCE POLL #1
What’s the most important factor in choosing a journal for publication? 1. Impact factor 10% (6/58) 2. Society affiliation 3% (2/58) 3. Published previously in the Journal 7% (4/58) 4. Specialty focus of the Journal 78% (45/58) 5. Relationship building activities 2% (1/58)
58 Respondents
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TOP TEN QUESTIONS You need to ask (yourself)
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Our authors
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Our readers
Oceania 3% Europe
21%
Asia 20% Africa
1%
Americas 55%
Our authors
Americas 54%
Oceania 4%
Europe 17%
Asia 25%
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Question 1.
Who are my readers?
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Question 2.
Do I have adequate peer reviewers?
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Question 3.
How timely is the topic?
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Question 4.
Does the paper answer the question?
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Question 5.
Are the statistics appropriate to the question?
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Question 6.
How readable is the manuscript?
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Question 7.
Does it test the hypothesis, or generate a new hypothesis, or does it replicate other findings?
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Question 8.
Is it original, novel, important, relevant?
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Question 9.
Does it describe the state of affairs?
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Question 10.
Does it deal with special populations?
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Our readers
0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000
PAGEVIEWS
344,716
458,865
609,292
508,199
2014 2013
76% increase
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THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE We need to navigate
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Origins of Scholarly Publishing
1580 Founding of the House of
Elzvir
1439 Gutenberg and Moveable
Type
6th March 1665 “Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society”
• First true scholarly journal
Henry Oldenburg (1618- 1677)
Founding editor and commercial
publisher of the first scientific journal
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Establishment of Scientific Publishing Fundamentals
Registration The timestamp to officially note who submitted scientific results first
Certification Perform peer-review to ensure the validity and integrity of submissions
Dissemination Provide a medium for discoveries and findings to be shared
Preservation Preserving the minutes and record of science for posterity
These 4 roles of the publisher were established by the Royal Society then, but are still fundamental today. The methods used to carry out these tasks are evolving, but
the roles remain unchanged.
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The Publisher’s Role
Publishers coordinate the exchange of ideas between authors, editors, reviewers, and the wider STM audience
of researchers, scientists, health professionals, students, and patients.
Registration Certification Dissemination Preservation Use
Innovation & Technology
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Content is growing
• Over 28,000 active scholarly peer-reviewed journals, publishing 2 million articles per year
• Number of articles grows by 3% each year as does the number of researchers
• USA continues to dominate global output (21%). China is second (10%), followed by the United Kingdom (7%), Japan (6%), Germany (6%) and France (4%).
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Total article growth
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Of the 2.3 million articles, subscription content comprises 87%
while open access articles comprise 13%
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Technology
• Majority of journals usage is electronic
• Social media and other Web 2.0 tools are beginning to make an impact
• Mobile devices are changing the way most researchers interact with journal content
• Semantic enrichment of content is now widely used to improve search and discovery
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Has changed the way researchers search and discover research
4 ½ Hours - Average time spent reading
research articles per week:
5.1 articles- Average number of
research articles read per week:
Publisher platform 38% Library service 44% Repository 6% Somewhere else 10%
Where are they finding the research?
Impact of technology
13%
What are researchers searching for?
Keeping up to date in their field
Looking for supporting evidence
Looking for a citation
21%
12%
8%
Searching for a specific article
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Understanding a journal’s profile
• The characteristics and details that are basic to your consideration
– Indexing – Impact Factor – Circulation/audience – Acceptance and rejection rates – Presubmission inquiries – Production speeds – Fees, if applicable – Open access – Cascading or article transfer services – Enhanced publication offerings
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Production speed
• Contributing to much faster overall production time: – From submission to first decision
• Triage by editorial office for completeness • EIC assigns to handling or specialty editor • Handling editor invites reviewers • Invitations accepted, refused, unanswered • Reviews completed • EIC sets first decision
– From submission to acceptance • Revision cycles • Final disposition (accept or reject)
– From acceptance to online publication/final publication
• Raw manuscripts posted • Formatted uncorrected proofs posted • Author corrected proof posted
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Content Innovation
• Advancing the scholarly article, creating an optimal vehicle for the communication of scientific, technical, and medical research
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Chemical compounds – linked to Reaxys
Interactive plots
3D models
AudioSlides
Research Highlights and
Graphical Abstracts
Content Innovation
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Conventional Journal-Author Relationship
Satisfy submission requirements
from perspectives of GFA, PR &
copyediting
Corresponding Author
An Editor
Publish results of research
Increase journal content,
standing & metrics
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Innovative Journal-Author Relationship
Support investigators’ efforts
to “grow” the science
Scientific Team Journal Team
Conduct research & disseminate outcomes to drive forward new threads of research
Increase journal relevance
& depth of content; Increase authors’ influence;
Expand journal brand
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AUDIENCE POLL #2
Which of the following reasons for engaging in a post-publication partnership is most important to you? 1. Reach a wider audience 39% (26/67) 2. Boost visibility of articles 15% (10/67) 3. Encourage conversation about your article
45% (30/67) 4. Increase author’s influence and establish
reputation 1% (1/67)
67 Respondents
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Goals for Post-Publication Partnership
• Increase the relevance of the journal for authors and readers.
• Expand the journal brand. • Increase depth of content within each discipline by
including emerging research. • Increase authors’ influence at international level. • All of which contribute to strengthening the
journal’s conventional metrics. – Authors use to identify target journals. – Readers apply qualitative and quantitative
judgment to evaluate the scientific weight of published research.
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WHAT HAPPENS When you put it all together
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Publish a paper
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Create a media statement
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Build a social campaign
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Measure its effect
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Deliver results
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Post-Publication Partnership Summary
CT’s post-publication partnership efforts represent: • A critical component of our systemic approach to
expand the author-journal relationship in an innovative way, that is framed by activities prior to publication and through a meaningful dissemination period.
• An important element of our longer-term strategy to achieve our organizational mission:
“Disseminate reliable and evolving evidence regarding therapeutics to an international audience of scientists and clinicians working in a variety of research, academic & clinical settings.”
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AUDIENCE POLL #3
To what extent does the information presented aid you to better understand the post-publication relationship that one should develop to maximize the scientific value and reach for each paper? 1. Extremely useful 13% (9/67) 2. Very useful 45% (30/67) 3. Somewhat useful 39% (26/67) 4. Doesn’t add to my understanding 3% (2/67)
67 Respondents
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PANEL DISCUSSION
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THANK YOU
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1 1 T H A N N U A L M E E T I N G O F I S M P P
OPTIMIZING SCIENTIFIC VALUE: SMART AND SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES
TO MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS April 27–29, 2015
Hyatt Regency Crystal City Arlington, VA, USA