3rd Edition

Getting Research Published An A-Z of Publication Strategy, Third Edition

By Elizabeth Wager Copyright 2016
    204 Pages
    by CRC Press

    204 Pages
    by CRC Press

    The third edition of this popular and highly-regarded guide uncovers the ethics, conventions and often unwritten rules of publishing in peer-reviewed journals and at conferences. It provides clear direction on how to choose the right journal, avoid publication delays, resolve authorship disputes and many other problems associated with being published that pose challenges to new and experienced researchers alike.

    The A to Z format is highly accessible to readers with different backgrounds and varying levels of publication experience, including students and healthcare professionals, medical researchers and individuals working in drug companies and communications agencies. It will be particularly valuable to anyone involved in planning publications.

    PUBLICATION STRATEGY – AN OVERVIEW

    Step-by-Step Guide to Publication Strategy

    Developing a Publication Plan for a Multicentre Study

    How Long Will it Take?

    Working with a Medical Writer

    Dr. Seymour and the Disappearing Paper: A Cautionary Tale

    A TO Z OF PUBLICATION STRATEGY

    A
    Abstracts
    Acceptance rates
    Acceptance times
    Access to data
    Accountability of authors
    Acknowledgements
    Advertising departments
    Affiliations
    American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)
    Anonymous reviewers
    Appeals
    Approval
    Article formats
    Article processing charge (APC)
    Artwork
    Authors’ affiliations
    Authorship

    B
    Back-up plan
    Beall’s list
    Bias
    Bibliographic software
    ‘Big Five’
    BioMed Central
    Blinded (masked) review
    Blogs
    Board of Editors in the Life Sciences (BELS)
    Books
    Brief
    By-line (or masthead)

    C
    Certified Medical Publication Professional (CMPP)
    Checklists
    ClinicalTrials.gov
    Cloned journals
    Co-authors
    Collaborators
    Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
    Competing interest
    Conditional acceptance
    Conflict of interest / competing interest
    Congress / conference choice
    Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS)
    CONSORT
    CONSORT for Abstracts
    Contact details
    Contracts
    Contributorship (vs. authorship)
    COPE
    Copy editing
    Copyright
    Corporate integrity agreement (CIA)
    Corrections (errata)
    Corresponding author
    Council of Science Editors (CSE)
    Cover letter / covering letter
    Creative Commons (CC) licences
    CrossCheck
    CrossMark

    D
    Data access
    Data analysis plan
    Data dredging
    Data ownership
    DataVision
    Deadlines
    Decision times
    DeepDyve
    Diamond Open Access
    Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
    DOI (Digital Object Identifier) system
    Duplicate publication

    E
    Economic (health outcomes) evaluations
    Editorial board
    Editorials
    Editors
    Electronic publishing
    Electronic review
    Electronic submission
    ELPS
    Embargoes
    Encore abstracts
    Enhanced publications
    Envision
    e- Prints
    epub
    EQUATOR Network
    Errata
    European Association of Science Editors (EASE)
    European Clinical Trials Database (EudraCT)
    European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations (EFPIA)
    European Medical Writers Association (EMWA)
    Expectations
    Expedited review
    External review

    F
    F1000Research
    Fast-track publication
    FDAAA
    Fees
    Figure legends
    Figures
    First author
    Footnotes
    Formatting requirements
    Freebies / ‘throwaways’

    G
    Galley proofs
    Gap analysis
    Ghost authors
    Ghost writers
    Gift authorship
    Gold Open Access
    Good Publication Practice (GPP, GPP2 and GPP3)
    Graphs
    Green Open Access
    Group authorship
    Guarantor
    Guest authors / gift authorship

    H
    Hanging Committee
    Hijacked journals
    Hot topics
    House style
    Hybrid journals

    I
    Image manipulation
    Impact factors
    IMRAD structure
    Indexing
    Informal review
    Ingelfinger rule
    In-house review
    Initials
    In press
    Institutional repositories
    Instructions to authors (contributors)
    Internal review
    International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
    International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
    International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP)
    Investigators’ agreements
    ISRCTN (International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number)

    J
    Journal cascades and consortia
    Journal choice
    Journalists
    JULIET

    K
    Key message(s)
    Key people / players
    Key words

    L
    Last author
    Late breaker abstracts
    Lead time
    Legends
    Letters to the editor

    M
    Masked review
    Meat extenders
    Media relations
    Medical writers
    Medline
    Meeting choice
    Meetings (of the writing group)
    Mega-journal
    MeSH headings
    Metrics

    N
    Names
    Negative studies
    Nitpickers
    Number of authors
    Number of publications

    O
    Offprints
    Ombudsman / ombudsperson
    Open Access journals
    Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)
    OpenDOAR (the Directory of Open Access Repositories)
    Open peer review
    Oral presentations
    ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
    Order of authors
    Organisations
    Outlines
    Overlapping publications
    Ownership of data

    P
    Page budget
    Page charges
    PeerJ
    Peers
    Permissions
    Personal communications
    Personal websites
    Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
    Physician Payments Sunshine Act
    Pico / PICO
    Placeholder abstracts
    Plagiarism
    Planning
    Platinum Open Access
    Pooled data
    PLOS
    Poster presentations
    Post-publication comments
    Post-publication peer review
    Predatory journals
    Predatory publishers
    Preprints
    Press conferences
    Press releases
    Pre- submission enquiries
    Primary publication
    Prior publication
    PRISMA
    Promoting your work
    Proofs (page proofs)
    Protocol review
    Publication agreements
    Publication bias
    Publication Plan
    Publication policy
    Publication steering committee
    Publication strategy
    Public Library of Science (PLOS)
    PubMed
    PubMed Central
    PubStrat

    Q
    Queries
    Queues

    R
    Readership
    Redundant publication
    References
    Reformatting
    Rejection
    Reporting guidelines
    Reprints
    Retractions
    Reviewer choice
    Reviewers’ comments
    Review process
    Role of sponsor
    RoMEO
    Running title

    S
    Salami science / slicing
    Secondary publications
    Second target journal
    Selective publication
    Self- archiving
    SHERPA/FACT
    SHERPA/JULIET
    SHERPA/RoMEO
    Short reports
    Short title
    Slides
    Social media
    Sponsor, role of
    Strategy
    STROBE
    Style
    Sub-editing
    Submission fees
    Submission letter
    Subscription journals
    Sunshine Act
    Supplementary material
    Supplements

    T
    Tables
    Target audience
    Target journal
    Technical editing
    Text recycling
    The Publication Plan
    ‘Throwaways’
    Timing
    Title
    Title page
    Translations
    Trial identifier
    Trial registration

    U
    Editors (ICMJE)
    Unpublished data (references to)

    V
    Vancouver Group
    Verbal branding
    Veto
    Vicious reviewers

    W
    Waivers
    WAME
    Web publication / institutional websites
    Withdrawal
    World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)
    World Medical Association (WMA)
    Writing
    Writing group

    X
    Xenophobia (geographical bias)

    Y
    Young reviewers

    Z
    Zealots and assassins

    Appendix 1 Further reading

    Appendix 2 Organisations

    Appendix 3 Guidelines

    Appendix 4 Principles of good publication practice for company sponsored medical research (from GPP3)

    Biography

    Dr. Elizabeth Wager has been a freelance publications consultant and trainer since 2001 and has worked with scientists, editors and writers on six continents. Before setting up her own company she worked in the publishing and pharmaceutical industries. She is an author of Good Publication Practice for Company-Sponsored Research (GPP3), a Fellow of the UK EQUATOR Centre, Visiting Professor at the University of Split Medical School in Croatia, a member of the Ethics Committees of The BMJ and the World Association of Medical Editors, the former Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Research Integrity & Peer Review .

    "In short, this is a must-have book for writers, editors and account managers in medical communications agencies in the publications departments of research institutions and pharmaceutical and medical device companies. I also recommend it to my fellow freelance writers as an easy way to ensure that you are ‘on the same page’ as the companies that you are working with when it comes to disseminating medical research findings" Jane Tricker CMPP, Medical Writing

    "Like its predecessors this update of Liz Wager’s book is presented concisely, pragmatically and with the inimitable down-to-earth and sharp-witted style familiar to many of us...this book is the source of "Everything You Need to Know About Medical Publishing but Were Afraid to Ask" and could well be one of the best bookshelf investments you make this year". – Moira A Hudson, European Science Editing Journal

    "The 3rd edition of Getting Research Published successfully instructs in an authoritative, easy to use, and clear and concise manner."
    —Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief, JAMA and The JAMA Network

    "The first thing that strikes you about this book … is its sheer practical nature."
    —Peter Thorpe, Independent consultant in information and communications management, European Science Editing Journal (of a previous edition)