Crossed the 300 peer review publication mark recently #nomedicalwriters
Here is what I learned over 12 years of publishing
1. Don't include too many authors...
You have to type their name, affiliation AND email into those damn submission portals
God help 30+ collaborators!
Here is what I learned over 12 years of publishing
1. Don't include too many authors...
You have to type their name, affiliation AND email into those damn submission portals
God help 30+ collaborators!
2. Well, if someone is willing to submit the paper, maybe they do deserve to be a co-author after all
#letsnotbehasty
#letsnotbehasty
3. If the journal asks you to suggest reviewers, you will probably suggest people you think will like the paper or people who like you
#nohaters
#nohaters
4. You can never predict what people will like, and on second thought, you will regret picking those reviewers
Side note: most journals don't ask for suggestions
Side note: most journals don't ask for suggestions
5. The only reviewer worse than someone who hates your guts is someone working on a similar idea or in a similar space
#stakesaresolow
#stakesaresolow
6. The papers you think are brilliant and innovative get the most rejections, and the ones you think are obvious and dull get accepted right away
go figure
go figure
7. Journals are absolutely indifferent to time.
Editors don't even own watches, and can sit on a paper for months....
....but if you take more than 48 hours to approve the proof, they will end your life
Editors don't even own watches, and can sit on a paper for months....
....but if you take more than 48 hours to approve the proof, they will end your life
7 cont.
You can be on vacation in the Amazon, but you are sure as shit better find a computer for those proofs
48 Hours!
You can be on vacation in the Amazon, but you are sure as shit better find a computer for those proofs
48 Hours!
8. Show me a person with 300 papers, and I will show you a person with 3000 rejections
9. Actually writing your own papers is hard
It is also cognitive work and can't be farmed out
#nomedicalwriters
It is also cognitive work and can't be farmed out
#nomedicalwriters
10. The absolute best thing you can do in research is find someone smarter than you to work with.
A simple screening q: Do you think mild covid can reduce IQ by 10 pts?
A simple screening q: Do you think mild covid can reduce IQ by 10 pts?
11. The most important part of a research paper is the motivating idea
It has to be
A. Clever
B. Topical
C. Interesting no matter the result
D. Not too obvious/ hot (scoop-able)
It has to be
A. Clever
B. Topical
C. Interesting no matter the result
D. Not too obvious/ hot (scoop-able)
12. Learning new methods and techniques, etc, etc. is all fine and good, but the most important thing to teach someone is how to come up with those ideas
12 cont...
If you are debating doing (insert degree) to help launch your research career, the right answer is "no"
Just find someone to work with, and start a project
On the job training
If you are debating doing (insert degree) to help launch your research career, the right answer is "no"
Just find someone to work with, and start a project
On the job training
13. Open access fees can make your eyes pop out, but nothing is as expensive as paying a journal to review your paper and desk reject it. (Come on JCO, it's ridiculous)
14. Rest assured that, for at least one paper you published, the only person who read it in full is you...
or the medical writer.
But not your coauthors, reviewers or editor, and certainly no one else
or the medical writer.
But not your coauthors, reviewers or editor, and certainly no one else
15. No one ever let an unethical, delinquent control arm hold back their dream of a first author NEJM paper
16 If your research mentor hasn't published 10 papers in the last year, they need a research mentor, and you need a new one
(don't @ me; it's a joke; a true joke)
(don't @ me; it's a joke; a true joke)
17. It's not all about the impact factor of the journal, but, also, most journals are literally read by no one.
If a tree falls in the forest and doesn't make a sound...
Try not to publish in journals you don't read.
If a tree falls in the forest and doesn't make a sound...
Try not to publish in journals you don't read.
18. One good paper is worth 1000 posters stuffed into tubes and collecting dust in your attic
or 1 poster taking up the overhead bin space when I have a carry on
or 1 poster taking up the overhead bin space when I have a carry on
19. If you get bored yourself in the middle of research project, abandon ship b/c no one else will be interested
20. Twitter is fun, tweetorials are neat, youtube is lovely, podcasting amazing, op-ed writing a delight....
but no one is really going to consider that scholarship anytime soon, and careers are made off of papers
It's true, sorry
but no one is really going to consider that scholarship anytime soon, and careers are made off of papers
It's true, sorry
21. You don't have to publish academic papers to know what you are talking about, but it helps
22. If you don't actually believe your result is true because you know how the sausage was made
...
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don't publish the result
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don't publish the result
23. The only thing worse than a collaborator who gives too few edits is one who gives too many
24. If you didn't find this funny, then you are doomed; sorry to say
But jokes aside, if anyone wants sincere advice contact me here
vinayakkprasad.com/contact
But jokes aside, if anyone wants sincere advice contact me here
vinayakkprasad.com/contact
Turned it into a video for those interested
25. Uh oh, years of cutting off authors past 4 has caught up with me!!
Sorry, I thought your name was Et. al.
Poor sense of humor & poor reading comprehension!
Sorry, I thought your name was Et. al.
Poor sense of humor & poor reading comprehension!
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