From the scientific point of view a short communication paper may be used if you are working with a hot topic and had discovered something never explored before in the literature.

This is done to ensure that you are the first scientist to report this feature. In some research topic thing go very fast and in some weeks another author can publish what you have discovered!

Normally a communication need to be about a really novel feature!

Thanks Mathias, so this in some way implies that having short communication in researchers resume indicates that he/she has been pioneer in a topic, which out stands it from research papers....

What I think about short communications papers is exactly that! Is something like marking the research territory!

Here is an ecample from the journal of "Environmental Modelling & Software":

Short communications are concise articles that are no longer than 3000 words (7-8 double spaced pages). They aim to report new ideas, recent advances in modelling and software. Short communications do not cover in detail background information about the problems treated or the applications, rather they provide key pointers to the reader. The work reported needs to be technically sound, innovative and significantly unique, advancing the state of the art. Our intent is to keep the review time for ShortComs short (ideally less than a month) to make sure that your new ideas get disseminated as fast as possible. Authors must include a statement about the word count in their submission.

Thank you all for your helps

Short communications is nothing but which our research findings are quickly taken to scientific community

Ramon Ory Some time there is important information that dilute the main information related to the research principal objectives. Therefore we omit it from the published paper. If one think that the omited information is important but cannot serve as the content of a full paper then it is worth to include that information in a short communication note..

Adding very little to what has been said here, a short communication also has a different structure than a regular article, usually without separation between the sections. There is a strong limitation on the size of the paper. But the main driving principle on whether an article should be sent as a short communication is the novelty, as a few people have mentioned here. Usually the time between obtaining an interesting result and publishing it can be more than a year. With rapid communications this time can be shortened to a few months...but this requires that the report be important enough to be worth fast-tracking, so the difficulty in getting a paper past the review process as a rapid communication is higher than for a regular paper.

To answer another question, it is obvious that because a short communication is short, you can expand it in another paper, with added results, added discussion, etc.

It is highly likely that the short communication is published in a high-impact journal, so the extended paper is not a 'must'. Do it only if you really have something to add. Short / rapid communications are well regarded in the community.

Which journal takes digital map or GIS short communication paper?

Can any one provide a list of high impact journals which accept short communications papers?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

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http://www.jrsgis.com/

Shaozhong, depending on the focus/application area of your GIS or mapping work, Landscape and Urban Planning could be an option, as they publish shorter "Research Notes"

Dear Colleagues

Peace

Please any body have any example of a note on a paper having wrong contants and equations type etc

Where can I submit a short communication paper on a web-based geodata processing service?

Can someone give me the name of journals which are specialised in short  communication papers?

Thanks in advance

Ey Sandra, many journals accept short communications, yet some do only publish that kind of papers. Among my field of expertise (neuroscience) you have Neuroscience Letters from Elsevier and Neuroreports. In LatinAmerica, the Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research also accepts them, the same is the case for the Argentinian Journal of Behavioral Sciences

http://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc

I'm requesting all the eminent Scientists, faculty members and scholars to kindly suggest me where to report Tigers' sighting records preferably in a SCI journals. 

Thanking you

Santanu

I"m the editor of a journal (social sciences) that accepts short communications. Here's our take on the subject, for those interested? [I included a link to the editorial below]

"Research Reports (3500-word inclusive) and Research Briefs (2000-word inclusive) are the two primary submissions that CRR accepts. They contain only essential references, and minimal tables and figures, placing full attention on empirical methods, results and data analysis, and the implications of those results. Reports focus on issues of methodology and observation. As such, they play an efficient and integral role in progressing the field of human communication from a social scientific perspective.

The five most cited articles in CRR’s history illustrate this focus. McCroskey and McCroskey (1988) and Rubin and Martin (1994) addressed (interpersonal) communication competence through scale validations. MacIntyre (1994) established causal antecedents of one’s willingness to communicate, expanding beyond prior cross-sectional limitations. Spence et al. (2006) reported the impact of age and gender on information-seeking in the days following 9/11—compelling data, but published years (rather than months) after 9/11 when bundled with larger (eventually rejected) analyses. McKinney, Kelly, and Duran’s (2012) correlational work on trait openness, narcissism, and self-focused social media usage is among the top 25% of all cited online research.

These reports—scales, causal models, novel correlations, and immediate observations—constitute the “nuts and bolts” of human communication. Scholars should consider CRR a destination journal with the importance of the research report as a primary means of reporting in-progress or “late-breaking” research, using CRR as a peer-reviewed and robust checkpoint in the research process to ensure that all of us can benefit from the incremental contributions of any one of us."

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08824096.2016.1174536

Dear Hadi Hezaveh

Assalamu Alaikum

Short communication or letter to the editor is a short article does not exceed 4 pages, contains only four figures or less and its words less than 2000 word only.

While the full length article, research article or original article is one without any limits. 

Both the short communication and the full length article obey the same roles of submitting  and reviewing. 

Good luck

Dear Hadi, nearly all important contents are explained. My personal findings on "Short Communications" from the viewpoint of a teacher (50 years University) and author of scientific and professional literature (education and training in therapeutic subjects): We work with such short treatises (larger than Abstracts) for higher education and social internal papers

• To submit project plans with relevant administrations,

• For explaining issues of training,

• To prepare technical peculiarities (E. G. Formulation of syndromes), even without detailed differentiation in methodology and results,

• For summary of various published reports,

• To display content of several individual works (E. G. Diplomas)

• To announce methodological work.

We then require a statement of reason and benefit, a good list of references and issues that arise in connection. When results are displayed, from the following questions need to be explained. The simple statement in the literature report that insights are needed into further work, are not enough. The Why, How and When are to be detained.

Sincerely, Heinz

As its name its short in nature but retains other qualities of scientific literature  

A short communication is for a concise, but independent report representing a significant contribution to science. Short communication is not intended to publish preliminary results. Only if these results are of exceptional interest and are particularly topical and relevant are accepted for publication. Length of a short communication is generally restricted to 2500 words. It may include two figures or tables, and should have at least 8 references.

Short communications are usually used to report significant improvements to existing methods, a new practical application, or a new tool or resource. These need to be reported quickly as the need to communicate such findings is very high. 

Each category of scientific publications, viz. research paper, review paper and short communication, has its unique value. Their values should not be compared.

I conducted a study in 2008 in lean, obese and type 2 diabetic African males. Recently a novel idea came into my mind and fortunately the answer could come from analyzing my 2008 data. The analysis came up with a novel finding that may have implications for future methodological approach in the field. Since the key findings are only two, they are not enough to make up a full journal article. For that reason I thought of submitting a short communication in form of a letter for possible publications. Given the fact that these data are somehow old, will my letter be eligible for publication as a short communication. And if that is the case, can anyone suggest journals that may accept that kind of work. Thank you.

Short communications are the one that should present new important findings in a brief form. Remember that short communication may also be peer-reviewed depends on journal's policy.

Difference in Research Articles, Review Articles, Mini-Reviews and Short Communications as given in "International Annals of Science" can be find at following link 

https://journals.aijr.in/index.php/ias/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies 

You may submit short communication papers in "International Annals of Science" multidisciplinary Journal accepting research work from all field of Science and Technology at https://journals.aijr.in/index.php/ias or other journal related to your research work (See Journal List). Make sure to add recent references and follow author guideline.

https://journals.aijr.in/index.php/ias

https://journals.aijr.in/

I agree with the insightful views of the colleagues and I do not want to be repetitive. Regarding the latter response of dear Khan, attached you may find one of my published works, as short communication.

Regards

Article Relations of environmental factors with the phenol content a...

There is no definition for short communications according to the http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/. According to https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-software-technology/short-communications short communications are short papers addressing new ideas, controversial opinions, "negative” results and much more. They are characterized by brevity and a peer-review procedure. My contributions contain some examples of short communications, e.g. pharmacokinetic investigations with < 6 subjects, a unique case report on hemodialysis at metacresol poisoning, or a secondary publication on citrate during donor plasmapheresis. Short communications are own scientific works. Preliminary results should not be be submitted as short communications but as letter to the editors, so subsequent original work can be accepted by another journal.

A short communication is for a concise, but independent report representing a significant contribution to Biotechnology.

Short communication is not intended to publish preliminary results. Only if these results are of exceptional interest and are particularly topical and relevant will be considered for publication.

Short communications are short in length but address new ideas, interesting finding, unique approach, innovative technology, etc.  that demands fast publication (no the 'first' is not the issue in this case most of the time)!

Short communication may deal with a 'hot' topic and incidentallyit has got a hot findings. Then it is expected to draw the attention of  larger community of researchers through the shot of short communication.

Some times if the work is of pilot scale, lab-scale study, microcosm study or partial study which may be conducted at larget scale and have the opportunity of receiving lage volume of data and subsequent insight,  the communication is supposed to be as "short communication":

It a paper which mainly reports contraversial statements, and negative results.

Is it possible to publish an idea with sufficient theoretical analogy with possibilities and reference to earlier work without conducting the practical experiments as "short communication"?

Short communication is a shorter version of Original Paper whose methods, findings, etc. don't justify a full length paper. They still contain original findings, but are general much more straightforward.

Short communications are usually a concise format used to report significant improvements to existing methods, a new practical application, or a new tool or resource. These need to be reported quickly as the need to communicate such findings is very high.

Short communication is the precise and concise  version of research paper (in brief) respecting the journal's word limit that is credited with some unique, finding/breakthrough/significant improvement and  requires immediate/quick communication for drawing attention to the scientific/ research community at the earliest.

If you have already published an original article but you have continued the study and would like to publish the continuation of your recent findings you can do it with short communication.

In reply to the query by Hulya Cakmak, who asked:

"But what happens if we publish the short communication paper first and use exactly same results with extending the scope? Is it applicable? Can we use the same results also in the coming research article?"

If results are presented in the "Short Communication" or "Rapid Communication" article, we cannot publish it elsewhere.

Short communication is brief, addressing new idea, interested topic or controversial opinions.

still controversy

Any significant scientific findings which will interest readers and enlighten new aspects of that topic.

Novel scientific Finding without conclusion

It's a way to display your idea and promote new innnovation

Basically a research paper of only two to six pages that presents results of lesser importance.

-- https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scientific_publication

Agree, new findings, limited to one particular aspect, very concise

A shorter and lesser significant paper with a page number of about half of a normal paper depending on the journal policy.

Very brief papers which basically contain a minimum of 80 words of abstract and 3-5 pages of the whole manuscript. However, it rely on the editorial policy of the journal.

Short Communication also a research article, which may not cover a complete story but it will be a novel and interesting scientific finding which is having partial/complete avoidance for the main hypothesis.

new data or result but not reach the full scientific paper level.....like extra or new

result dealing with pointed subject....so its characterized by short result...short samples..short tables

A short communication paper is a novel and original scientific study, but without discussion and, consequently, conclusion. For example, imagine you have discovered something that is strongly relevant in your field of knowledge (ex: the cure for a type of cancer), but you don't know how to explain the results yet (ex: pharmacological mechanism that cured it). In this case, your work can be published as a short communication. After, it has been published, other scientists may try to explain how this occurred.

For Science, a short communication paper is so important as a full paper.

Short Communications are short papers that present original and significant material for rapid dissemination. For example, a Short Communication may focus on a particular aspect of a problem or a new finding that is expected to have a significant impact. Short articles include, but are not limited to: discovery or development of new materials, cutting-edge experiments and theory, novelty in simulation and modeling, elucidation of mechanisms. As Short Communications are expected to have higher than average impact on the field rather than report on incremental research, they will receive prioritized and rapid publication.

Short Communications are usually limited to 3000 words and are not subdivided. The paper should contain an abstract, main body and references, and contain no more than 6 figures or tables, combined. The abstract is limited to 100 words.

This definition is presented by Elsevier team.

Short communication can be a small part of the project which is something unusual and novel, in social sciences it may be the preliminary survey findings conducted before actual research s being carried out.

Short communication(SC) is a rapid research report of a discovery that needs to inform the scientific community. The results may not be conclusive yet as would need to be fine-tuned to a better scientific explanation. SC is almost a quarter of a full research length article, but this, of course, will depend on the publisher's recommendation.

What journals in food microbiology research areas accept short communications? I am planning to submit one paper but cannot find a way to find all journals that accept this paper type.

Jie Xu You can submit in International Annals of Science at https://journals.aijr.in/index.php/ias

Hi,

Your question can best be answered by way of an example of a RAPID COMMUNICATION paper published in a peer-reviewed journal:

Mozafari, M. R., Javanmard, R., & Raji, M. (2017). Tocosome: Novel drug delivery system containing phospholipids and tocopheryl phosphates. International journal of pharmaceutics,528(1-2), 381-382.

Which ones accept short communication on critical matters in data services?

A Rapid Communication describes fast-breaking developments that need to be transmitted rapidly to the research community. Generally, authors must include a cover letter justifying why the article merits rapid publication. The Editor-in-Chief will determine if the article is appropriate for rapid communication and will obtain an expedited review, ideally within two weeks. The author must be committed to rapid revision of the article following review and at page proofs, and be available for discussion with the Editor-in-Chief via e-mail.

Short reports or Letters:

These papers communicate brief reports of data from original research that editors believe will be interesting to many researchers, and that will likely stimulate further research in the field. As they are relatively short the format is useful for scientists with results that are time sensitive (for example, those in highly competitive or quickly-changing disciplines). This format often has strict length limits, so some experimental details may not be published until the authors write a full Original Research manuscript. These papers are also sometimes called Brief communications.

Springer Definition.

It is original work contributed by researcher, never before existing in the literature i.e. it is novel work of the researcher

It is a brief report of your original work for rapid dissemination to the research community.

Does anyone know of journals that accept brief communications without an APC for human/medical genetics research - specifically transcriptomics studies? Thanks

Short Communications are short articles which state or present original and significant material. In general, the length of the short communication article is restricted to 2500 words (some journals may allow up to 3500 words). It may include one or two figures and tables. It includes abstract, main body, acknowledgment (if any), and references (up to 8 references). The main body is usually not divided into sections.

It is like press-release known in journalistic/offices work, where the condensated, aggregated and prompt information is put. Sometimes short evaluation can also be put in it.

Greetings

A short report of the main research that is published quickly

And the final information about the research will be published later

And is used for top researches

What constitute a Short communication/brief communication is dependent on the Journal's definition or scope. However, As the name suggest, are papers that communicate an important issue before an upcoming paper or they are original researches published with limited or concise information usually with limited words, not worthy to be published as an original research paper.

Can a book overview is a short communication?

Hadi Hezaveh

Short communication usually shares a new founding before others realise that. Even though it may not your objective in your study or just a small new finding. As long as the finding not yet discovered by other researchers. Short communication is very specific compared to the review and research paper. The review paper is an analysis of many research papers from so many authors. The research paper will discover a topic wider included why, how, where, what and more. The weightage is dependent on the novelty and the publisher impact factor.

Short communication may feature essentially new data collected and collated on a subject worthy of empirical investigation. The object of bringing it to limelight is to stimulate interest and draw attention of researchers.

Short communication is a brief report that extracted from original work that has a good chance for rapid publishing

Short communication papers provide more emphasis on highly discussed topics instead of brief literature reviews or background information