How to get your paper rejected.

How to get your article rejected.

As an Associate Editor, I handle a considerable number of manuscripts submitted to Stress and Health for consideration for publication. Many of these articles are rejected from the journal. Sometimes manuscripts are rejected because they are deemed not to make a sufficiently original contribution to the field or contain ‘fatal flaws’. Often there is very little that can be done in such cases, o...

“How to Write a Scientific Paper”: Tips and Highlights from the Global Spine Congress Members-Only Session

At Global Spine Congress in Milan in May, we, the Global Spine Journal (GSJ) Editors-in-Chief, presented a session on “How to Write a Scientific Paper.” For those of you who were unable to attend, we are providing a recap here of the most important points on how to write a paper. The GSJ Editorial Board wants to help any authors that may need it. The first thing to remember is to always keep an...

How to ensure your paper is rejected by the statistical reviewer.

How to write a scientific paper--a rough guide to getting published.

Few professional experiences are more depressing than having your first attempt at writing an original article rejected. The process of peer review can be very cruel when your fledgling efforts are summarily dismissed with comments that they 'add little to current knowledge', that your conclusions are 'not supported by the data presented', or worse still that the writing is 'confusing and verbo...

P14: How to Find a Talent?

Talents may be artistic or technical, mental or physical, personal or social. You can be a talented introvert or a talented extrovert. Learning to look for your talents in the right places and building those talents into skills and abilities might take some work, but going about it creatively will let you explore your natural abilities and find your innate talents. You’re not going to fin...