How to Publish Your Papers in the Top Scientific Jour（PPT 36页）.ppt

4/3/2001 P.J.Hines What Is the Purpose of Doing Research? Basic Elements for Basic Research Good Research Is the Key What Is a First-Class Paper/Research? Should your paper go to CNS? What helps: Convincing data Appropriate controls Careful presentation Consideration of all viable alternatives What doesn’t help The minimal publishable unit. Excessive or unfounded speculation Repeat examples of a known phenomenon Insufficient advance over previously published work Invite thorough critique Run your own review process first ask feedback from someone in your own specialty someone in an unrelated specialty a good editor for the English language Assess both research and presentation Common reasons for rejection Belongs in a specialized journal Too small of an advance over previously published work Unconvincing data Observations without interpretations Interpretations without data Is it a good paper or not? what makes a great paper? Astounding work of great value to its own field and/or to the general readership Common problems resulting in rejection of a manuscript too small of an advance not of general interest/ belongs in specialized journal not scientifically convincing, interpretations poorly supported results not well interpreted, poor context Revise your paper Be calm about reviewers criticisms. Always make editor your friend Never argue with reviewers Try to do everything that reviewers ask Seize the opportunity when reviewers make mistakes When your paper gets rejected — without review Dear Editor, ? I would appreciate if you could reconsider to review our manuscript, “111. We feel strongly that this is an important subject that touches one of the central dogmas in neuroscience: xxx. It is also very timely, given the publication of the paper by X and Y entitled “222” in the latest issue of Nature Neuroscience. In this paper, the authors xxx. They claimed that xxx. When a paper this provocative has been published by a high profile journal like Nature