
How to write a great research paper, and get it accepted by a good journal
- Diane Ashton
- Suitable for: Members of staff in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
- Admission: FREE
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With Michaela Kurschildgen, Customer Consultant, Elsevier, Elsevier, the Netherlands
Knowing the best way to structure your paper, and the most appropriate journal to send it to, really helps in getting it accepted. Also understanding how editors and publishers think and what they expect, and knowing how the peer review process works, is invaluable insight into the publishing process. Attend this Faculty of Health and Life Sciences seminar to find out about:
Types of scientific publications
The different types of research papers published
Considerations before writing
Choosing the right journal
Writing using correct language
The structure of the manuscript
The submission and review procedure
Author responsibilities: publishing ethics and plagiarism
How to use information resources as a tool for authors (Scopus)
About the speaker:
Anthony Newman is a Senior Publisher with Elsevier, and is based in Amsterdam. Currently responsible for several laboratory medicine and biochemistry journals, he joined Elsevier 28 years ago and has been Publisher for the last 15 years. Before then he was the marketing communications manager for the biochemistry journals of Elsevier. By training he is a polymer chemist and was active in industry before leaving London and moving to Amsterdam in 1987 to join Elsevier.