Editors and reviewers are the gatekeepers between your academic manuscript and getting published. These are the people you need to convince (and not annoy or offend) to ensure success. The three most common reasons for accepting a manuscript that is given by reviewers are that the work is: Timely and relevant to a current problem […] Read More
Medical writers are catalysts in knowledge translation by Ruth Hadfield, PhD Recently I watched Simon Sinek’s inspiring TedTalk about how great organisations ‘Start with Why’. It got me thinking. I love being a freelance medical writer. I really enjoy researching the medical literature and working on a wide variety of topics and I have no doubt that […] Read More
‘Pearl growing’ (also known as ‘Citation mining’ or ‘Snowballing’) is an effective approach to systematic literature searching which helps to ensure that all relevant literature has been identified. All three names hint at the iterative process involved – a grain of sand in an oyster grows slowly, layer by layer, into a pearl – one […] Read More