OP3207 - Scientific manuscripts and literature reviews
What is a scientific/medical manuscript?
A scientific/medical manuscript is a novel idea or finding that has been peer-reviewed and published in a journal.
What is a systematic review?
A strict inclusion criteria of articles that will be reviewed A combination of PRAs and LRs
What is a journal
A journal is a collection of scientific manuscripts that handle the editing and publishing of your paper
What is a scientific/medical manuscript more commonly referred to as?
A paper
When a scientific manuscript is sometimes accepted to be published, what can be requested (E,D,D)
Additional experiments, data points or discussions
Why do we write systematic reviews?
Allows for novel ideas to be implemented Dissertations When there are conflicts of interest When you want to plan clinical trials
What is a literature review
It is a broad overview of the field of research or a topic of research
What is a meta-analysis
It is like a systematic review, but will include more quantitative analysis and inclusion of data from systematic reviews.
What topic areas to journal cover?
Journals can cover a broad range of topic areas or a specific area
What does it mean when journals are not created equally?
Journals historically have impact factors This is the average amount of times a journal is cited The more times a journal is cited averaged over the number of papers - the higher the impact factor
What is the point of reading/writing a paper?
New treatments, new policies, run a business Prompts further research- others can build on your findings Allows contacts to be found and collaborators, seeking employees
What will a literature review not include (2 things)?
Original data Methods section
What are the structures of PRAs and LRs
PRAs - IMRAD LRs - Intro, discussion, conclusion
What are your reviewing in LRs?
Primary research articles
What are the two broad types of scientific papers?
Primary research articles Literature reviews
What will the methods of a systematic review show?
Show how the papers were selected and the inclusion criteria References will not show all the papers - too many, just ones used to write introduction
What are examples of conflicts of interest?
Study says something is beneficial/good for you Acknowledgements say funded by said company
What kind of prestige do PRAs have?
The highest prestige due to ideas published being novel/new
How does a systematic review reduce bias?
Will have a strict inclusion criteria which has already been decided before you even start looking at papers
Why are literature reviews important?
You can filter through studies and collate information to answer a question