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Find out more… www.ismpp.org • Join your colleagues – join ISMPP • 50% discount for Asia-Pacific members! Half‐price for Asia‐ • 12 months $195 only - $95 USD Pacific! FREE webinars from ISMPP for the Asia-Pacific region 1. Today’s webinar 2. Lost in translation (August) 3. Encore publications (October) 4. Good Publication Practice 3 update (November) How to develop an SCI manuscript: Tips from a journal editor and a medical writer Speaker: Professor Hong REN, MD Speaker: Dr Julie NEWMAN, ELS, ISMPP CMPPTM Moderator: Dr Serina STRETTON PhD, ISMPP CMPPTM Learning objectives By the end of this webinar, attendees should be able to: 1. Understand what SCI journals are and what editors look for in submitted manuscripts 2. Identify the key features of a well-written, well- constructed manuscript 3. Apply practical tips on manuscript preparation, journal selection, and submission Faculty • Professor Hong REN, MD • Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Journal of Hepatology • Highly respected leader in hepatology (more affiliations / key positions to be disclosed) • Julie NEWMAN, ELS, ISMPP CMPPTM • Associate Director, Regional Strategic Medical Communications, Bristol-Myers Squibb (China, Intercon Asia-Pacific & Japan) • Chair, Asia-Pacific Education Taskforce and Member, Asia-Pacific Advisory Committee, ISMPP How to vote and ask a question When the poll is shown here, I can vote – nobody will know how I voted I can type my question here – only the facilitator and speakers can see it #1: Poll question to the audience Which country are you from? • China • Japan • India • Korea • Taiwan • Thailand • Australia • Hong Kong/Singapore • Other #2: Poll question to the audience What is your role? • Medical publication planner • Medical writer • Medical editor • Author • Medical investigator • Scientific advisor #3: Poll question to the audience What is your preferred language in manuscripts? • English • Chinese • Japanese • Korean • Taiwanese How to develop an SCI Manuscript: Tips from a Journal Editor Professor David Hong Ren Editor‐in‐Chief of the Chinese Journal of Hepatology Disclosures • I am the chief executive officer of the second affiliated hospital and dean of the second clinical college, Chongqing Medical University (CMU) • I am the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Hepatology (CJH) • I am the vice chairman and head of hepatitis group of the Chinese Society of Hepatology, Chinese Medical Association (CMA) • I am the director of the institute for viral hepatitis and the Chongqing Liver Diseases Center Presentation overview • What does SCI stand for? • Why do we want to publish SCI-cited papers? • What is the best way to publish an SCI-cited paper? Chinese Journal of Hepatology • Recognized as one of the top 100 Chinese academic journals (16 medical journals included in category) in 2013 • Winner of the “High-quality Science and Technology Journal Projects of China Association of Science and Technology” in 2013 • Rated No. 1 out of 19 journals by the Journal Evaluation Index of Disciplines • 9 papers rated among “China's most influential • excellent domestic academic papers” • Cited in Index Medicus, Medline and Pubmed "The Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD)" core library journal Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology (JCTH) • The JCTH is a peer-reviewed, open-access, specialist journal focusing on advances in clinical and basic research with direct application to the clinical management of liver diseases. • We invite you to submit original manuscripts and review articles. • Upon acceptance, articles are Full texts accessible at the JCTH often published within 3 months website (http://www.jcthnet.com) What is SCI? • SCI stands for Science Citation Index • The SCI is published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI website: http://www.isinet.com) • Web version: Web of Knowledge Why are we so focused on publishing in an SCI journal? In China, publishing in an SCI journal is • A prerequisite for graduation, promotion and career development • A key requirement for grant applications • (eg, The Chinese National Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists) • Essential to apply for some specially engaged positions and international academic exchange programs Chinese papers in the SCI The changing trend of Chinese papers in the SCI Paper number Proportion of the world 190,100; 12.08% 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 The increasing rank of Chinese papers in the SCI Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Rank 8 6 6 5 5 5 5 4 2222 2013 Statistical Data of Chinese S&T Papers, the China Science and Technology Information Institute The SCI includes approximately 6200 core scientific journals Sample Topics from over 1500 Topics in the SCI mathematics medicine physics life sciences chemistry astronomy agriculture geology veterinary sciences ( ≈ 120) geography forestry environmental science engineering and material sciences technology Unique Features of SCI • The Citation Index allows the user to obtain details about published papers: • Are they cited in the SCI database? • Has the paper been cited by other authors? • How often has the paper been cited? Understanding JCR and IF • JCR stands for Journal Citation Reports • IF stands for Impact Factor What is the SCI Index? • “We live in a world that relies on citations”* • The SCI index is made available online through the Web of Science database, a part of the Web of Knowledge collection of databases • This database allows a researcher to identify which later articles have cited any particular earlier article, or cited the articles of any particular author, or determine which articles have been cited most frequently *Garfield, E. Citation indexes for sciences. Science 122:108-11, 1955. Understanding Impact Factor • A journal impact factor is the average number of times that articles published in a specific journal in the two previous years (eg 1998-99) were cited in a particular year (ie 2000)* * Tree, v. 14, no. 10, Oct. 1999, p 382. Journal Partition of the Chinese Academy of Sciences According to the journal’s IF, scientific merit, selectivity and influence, the Chinese Academy of Sciences allocates journals into 4 tiers: •The first tier comprises the top 5% of journals in the field •The second tier comprises the top 6%-20% of journals •The third tier comprises the top 21%-50% of journals •The fourth tier comprises the lower 50% of journals GASTROENTEROLOGY INFECTIOUS & HEPATOLOGY DISEASES Examples of Journal Impact Factors Journal IF New England Journal of Medicine 51.658 Annual Review of Immunology 47.2 Science 30.03 Cell 29.19 Nature 26.68 The Lancet 25.8 The Journal of Experimental Medicine 14.48 The Lancet Infectious Diseases 11.81 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 9.64 Journal of Immunology 6.29 Journal of Biological Chemistry 5.81 Journal of Virology 5.34 Significance of IF Impact Factor is important because it can: • Be used to judge the quality of journals/ magazines • Guide the submission of manuscripts to journals/magazines • Influence our decisions about whether to subscribe to particular journals/magazines Journal Publishing is a Very Competitive Business Journals want: • New and exciting data to provide impactful content to their subscribers! • To publish high-quality articles that will get cited and improve their IF! • Your submissions to fill up the pages in their journals! Some Basic Truths About Publishing • Poor research is almost always rejected • Sensational research is usually accepted − even if poorly written • However, most papers are neither; most are somewhere in the middle • Preparing a good, clean manuscript is essential if you want a chance of publishing it! What Do Journal Editors Want? • Editors want to publish relevant, newsworthy material that will be cited in future articles • Information that has the potential to educate readers and improve patient care • Clear, concise and interesting writing • Good data and accurate analysis of data • Publishing is a big business, editors want cutting-edge data that sets them apart from their competitors • They want to sell journal subscriptions and provide impactful information Treatment Studies • Randomized controlled trial • Double-blind randomized trial • Single-blind randomized trial • Non-blind trial • Adaptive clinical trial • Nonrandomised trial (quasi-experiments) • Interrupted time series design (samples from the same population are obtained several times before and after a manipulated event or a naturally occurring event) – considered a type of quasi-experiment Observational studies