medical simulator

Chapter 450 The Editorial Department Arrives! (seeking subscription)

The earth is round, and at the same time node, it is destined that half of the people will fall asleep in the middle of the night, and the other half will be working hard.

In the editorial department of JAMA, editor Chris is just one of the editorial department.

As editors of top journals, they are not only responsible for reviewing manuscripts, accepting and rejecting them, but also reviewing manuscripts that may be published in detail and word for word.

It is no exaggeration to say that there are at least hundreds of articles submitted to JAMA every day. The review process is very tedious.

However, as one of the four major medical journals, JAMA must try its best to select high-quality articles for publication and review the submissions in detail.

After finishing his lunch, Kleis continued to open the backstage of the magazine's submissions.

Then I selected one of the earliest drafts of the article that I hadn't had time to review, and reviewed it.

Although it is the earliest and has not had time to review, in fact, it is also an article sent a day ago.There are at least dozens of editors in the editorial department doing cross-review work.

Other editors are reviewing yesterday's or even the day before yesterday's submissions.

For articles that cannot be published, after a few glances, you can choose to reject them.

But when encountering a good article, sometimes it is very difficult to finish the review in one day, unless there are structural errors or obvious omissions, the manuscript is directly rejected.

Reviewing the submission of an article naturally starts with the title.

recovery unit?
Rehabilitation department to vote for JAMA?

What on earth is this thinking?

This topic seems rather watery, Kleis frowned immediately after reading the topic.

Then I looked at the author and the country where it was delivered.

China.

Chinese people.

Kles already had a general impression of this article in his mind.

To be honest, manuscripts from Huaguo will be marked with colored colors in all sci journals. After all, in the whole world, although Huaguo is not the only one with some academic falsehoods.

However, in the past 20 years, more of the phenomenon of academic falsification has come from Huaguo, which is in a period of growth.

And this kind of academic fraud has been repeatedly banned.

Some plagiarized, some stole results, some fought between different research groups, and some research groups didn't even get the ethics approval, and then sent it, and finally supplemented the ethics approval results.

It was a mess.

Therefore, many editors, in addition to paying attention to some Huaguo scholars they are familiar with, ordinary authors, they will look at it with colored eyes.

However, with rigor and patience.

Kless was still patient, and began to read carefully.

After reading the abstract, he realized that this article seemed interesting.

It's just that the writing and sentence making are quite immature, and some of the grammar expressions are not particularly idiomatic, but the content inside does interest Kleiss.

Read on.

After Kleis finished reading the introduction, he was immediately attracted.

Whether an article is well written or not depends on the discussion.

Whether it can attract people depends on the introduction.

The writing method of this introduction is very intriguing. At least, Kleis himself was attracted by the arguments and arguments in the introduction.

Layers of depth, quite a sense of hierarchy,

Like a hook, it will draw you to read on, interesting and detailed.

Strong logical skills coupled with finding the right arguments to develop interesting arguments.

This is a very good paper.

Read such an article.

It will make people feel comfortable.

Well, it's comfort.

If he only read the introduction, Kleiss felt that even if this article could not be published in JAMA, it would be quite good to post it in a sub-journal under JAMA.

Then, Kles carefully began to read the methods and results.

These two parts are the author's own explanation of the whole process, so the readability is actually not great, just find out if there are any mistakes in it, and whether it is rigorous enough.

Kress read it first, nodding his head.

Then his whole head gradually became insufficient. Although he did not need to review the result process and the correctness of the data in the article, the huge tabular data, the complex and numerous angles, and the physical symbol Newton of power N...

Even after sorting out, some statistical charts, although generally speaking, are very beautiful and detailed, and the content is very rich.

But Kles felt that these charts definitely exceeded the amount of information that could be expressed in the entire article.

Then I finally finished the first page, and then looked at the second and third pages.

Chris started pulling his hair!
Oh, My God, who's kidding me?
So many statistics?
Hundreds, thousands of raw data?

There are thousands of pieces of data after sorting?

Can anyone tell me, who is joking with me? Is it a diagram made by a large team from the Data Department?
This is a very large subject?

When he saw this, Kles specifically pulled the article to the top and looked at the author's name.

Zhou, Cheng;

Kles felt that this person should not be an unknown person.Unknown people should not submit manuscripts here.

So he started searching for the two.

First of all, I saw the articles published by Zhou Cheng. There are quite a few articles...

So Krys immersed himself in it.

……

Five hours later.

After Klein read the discussion.

Chris felt it instantly.

Forget it, let's submit the article directly.For the review of this article, you must ask for help. If you don't ask for help, you will be an idiot.

So, Kles sent this article directly to the editor-in-chief's mailbox, and then marked it: "A very interesting article, no structural errors, and strong logic. It is recommended to send it directly for external review."

After finishing this one, Kress started to read the next one. As a result, the more he read, the angrier he became.

He kept cursing, what the hell was written.

The logic here?
The key structure is not clear.

……

The editor-in-chief is the person in charge of a journal, responsible for reviewing and sending out articles that are intended to be accepted, and asking peer experts to give professional opinions.

However, today, Wells had a headache.

Not every day, there are articles that meet the requirements and are sent to his mailbox.

But today for some reason, such a strange thing happened.

Two articles were sent at the same time, and the authors of these two articles are the same person.

If this is a joke, Wells will still wonder if today is April Fool's Day.However, the fact that two articles were submitted successively by different editors proved that it was not a joke.

Instead, there are two editors in my editorial department. On the same day, I fell in love with two different articles by the same author, and both of them intend to recommend publication.

After figuring this out, Wells also started browsing the articles.

Wells then sank into it.

Five hours later, Wells felt like he was going crazy.

What the hell is this?

But out of professional instinct,

Wells sent these two articles to several big figures in statistics who have a deep friendship with JAMA magazine.

And by the way, the article was sent to several top professors in the rehabilitation department.

There are also some special professional things, and they still need to evaluate the authenticity of this article and whether it is meaningful clinically.

if not?

It is just a conjecture, an article that does not work or even runs counter to clinical practice, and JAMA does not need it.

At the same time, for the sake of rigor.

……

this day.

An expert in the mathematics department named Simon, unfortunately, received two requests for review articles from the magazine at the same time.

When Simon saw these three articles, his head got a little big.

And they are all articles from the Department of Medicine.

Immediately, Simon wanted to go crazy. After receiving the article, he kept yelling in the office: "Are the editors of these magazines all living?"

"Send me something so simple, damn it, it's a waste of my time."

“They were all hindering my academic progress,”

But Simon can't help it. It's not easy for him to refuse the review request of this kind of magazine.

This is where networking comes in.

Since it is simple, Simon felt that it would take three to five hours to demonstrate the data of the three documents, and it must be able to be done.

after an hour.

Simon was still in an article, thoughtful.

two hours later.

Simon leaned over his desk and was calculating with a pen.

Three hours later, Simon was still working on the same article, swearing non-stop:

"Damn it, what's going on? What didn't I do well?"

"Or is there something wrong with the data itself?"

"No, I can't say it's wrong until I find the right data."

"But, God, please tell me, such data processing and graphics, why is it from a medical journal instead of a top mathematics journal?"

"How big a team was to calculate such a complicated thing?"

"I think this month, I may have to work overtime."

"..."

……

Even more unfortunate than Simon.

A professor of statistics had the same idea as Simon at first.

But at the end, he was stunned to find that he was obviously very good at processing data in R language, why today?

Why can't I reproduce these images?
How did you do it?

Are these damn editors eating shit?Why don't you know to ask for the author's source code?

Do you think my hair is too much?

……

A day later, Simon responded to the JAMA editorial department.

This article should not be judged by me.

So, Simon responded:

"It is recommended to send it to experts in mechanics and physiology for another review. From the perspective of orthopedics and joint surgery, I highly recommend Zhou's article to be published in your journal!"

……

After almost six hours.

The editor-in-chief of JAMA magazine feels his head is getting bigger again.

He looked at the expert's suggestion of sending him out for external trial, and sat there blankly, with an expression of wanting to die.

"The joint department asked me to send physics and physiology."

"The rehabilitation department suggested that I send it to statistics."

"The statistical proposal I sent to the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics."

"The mathematics department also asked me to send physics."

"Physics asked me to send Mechanics and Mechanics."

"God, don't you bless me today?"

"I am your most honest believer!"

"..."

Wells finally chose to give up the idea of ​​reviewing the manuscript, and then contacted the original author directly by email.

The original author also cooperated to package all the verification process together and delivered it as a supplementary document.

But, after Wells downloaded the supplementary files!

Feel like you're gone.

Raw data, up to 10,000+ items, calculation process, different statistical data, process, result, and data at different stages...

Wells felt that this article seemed to be unable to be reviewed at all!
You should know that the data, icons and various graphics that appear in the article have been processed, so that the data that is easier to read has exhausted some of the friends I reviewed. If these raw data are obtained, then?
The time may be measured in years.

However, Wells was very sensitive to capture the hugeness of the subject that the author of this subject did, and the huge impact of the results.

So he planned to visit Zhou Cheng in person, and then let Zhou Cheng be the review editor of his own article, because Zhou Cheng must be the person who knows his article best.

If this article is lost due to the review of its own journal, it will be a very big loss for the journal.

However, Wells felt that for the sake of rigor, Wells contacted Zhou Cheng again: "Dear Zhou, our editorial department has already read the article and original data you sent. Unfortunately, It takes us a long time to collate and audit the data."

"So in this process, I hope you can wait patiently."

"We will send an editor to China to contact you in person. Is your contact address true?"

When Zhou Cheng saw Wells' message, he was taken aback for a moment.

Zhou Cheng thought that the editorial department wanted him to add something. After all, I heard that the process of JAMA submission and review is very cumbersome, and there may be dozens or even hundreds of revisions in the middle. I hope that Zhou Cheng Be able to prepare mentally.

What does it mean that the editorial department is going to Shashi in Huaguo?
"The mailing address is real, you can contact me through my email." Zhou Cheng replied politely.

Then two days passed.

Wells and Cress changed planes and landed in Shashi, then took a taxi to the address where the Affiliated Hospital of Shonan University is located.

Wells and Cress asked if there was a man named Zhou Cheng in the hospital. He arrived at around [-] o'clock in the evening. He was on the plane and could not send emails to Zhou Cheng. After getting off the plane, he sent an email to Zhou Cheng. Cheng did not return.

After they revealed their identities and showed them their IDs, the people in the emergency department hurriedly reported the news that the editor-in-chief of the JAMA editorial department had approached Zhou Cheng, and reported it layer by layer. ...

(End of this chapter)