in your opinion, which section of an article will be deleted or added to it? and why?
I would have placed much emphasis on the import of the theme for the article as against all the other aspects. This is because it is this section that is of much interest to the readers.
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hi dear charbel
Thanks for useful and comprehensive information and I agree with your opinion.
I like the future medicine series of journals that include a paragraph at the end entitled, "future perspective", where the authors are asked to speculate on the subject/field in the next 5-10 years. This can show other researchers the speculated research direction and perhaps open up collaborations or stimulate discussion/generate ideas.
Some journals in Elsevier Publications print graphical abstract and reseach highlights in the final version of the article. Previously it was kept only on the article web page without inclusion in the PDF. Those, two sections should be deleted. Because, they are repetition of abstract and conclusion sections to make an eye catch for the readers.
Some journals still insist to write separately results and discussion as two sections. That should be merged. It would be difficult for the reader to follow the observation in one section and the corresponding discussion in another section. It would consume more time to comprehensively understand the articles. On the other hand, many authors tend to repeat the statements in results section in discussion section.
Many letter type journals still follow the various sections of regular articles. Those journals can avoid printing the section headings. For example, Scripta Materialia stopped printing section headings several years back.
Some journals still append a short CV of authors at the end of the article. This section can be deleted. Because, a researcher's profile can be easily found in institution website/Scopus database , Google Scholar/sites etc.
Hi dear Dinaharan
Very thanks for useful and comprehensive information offer to me and I agree with you and in my opinion you should be leader of that group for new protocol.
I remember one day an old professor named Amir (RIP) told me the following statement
Style is a man", means every person as a researcher or writer, has his own character and academic life style and always free in his traits with full respect to writing ethics.
Regards, Emad
I don't think that this occurs in the main proposal of the article. But normally this happens (for me) with the number of tables and figures. So the number may be reduced. In fact the proffesional author must put any alteration in the proposal of his article into consideration. Best regards.
Creating new protocol means the organization is trying to enhance the quality of research, for that, introduction, experimental part, results and discussion including conclusion with references is mandatory, which is already present is almost all journals. So, i don't think their is any need of skipping any part pf the article as long as it is important to reach to the audience.
I think that motivation for the study can also be introduced as a section in the research report so we can appreciate the factors that push (as it were) individuals to explore a particular phenomenon.
I have seen many papers in which the discussion is wholy inadequate. Authors just summarize findings once more and fail to discuss how their findings fit in with other similar work, and fail to explore the implications and ramifications of their findings, so they fail to present the MEANING of their work.
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