Please help me by defining this term, I submitted a paper to a journal as original manuscript, but they sent me back and asked me to format article as short communication.
Is short communication considered as research paper?
From internet:
[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....]
So there should not be any doubt that short communications are also researh papers.
There format usually differs from the main paper and relevant instructions to the authors are found in the journals concerned
Hi. It is a brief, precise and concise version of research paper done according to the journal's word limit that is credited with some unique, finding/breakthrough/significant improvement and needs immediate/quick communication for drawing attention to the scientific/ research community at the earliest.
Short communication means the article which are not accepted as a full length paper. If the article has a lack of methodology or if the results does not convey any fruitful contribution in these case, the articles are suggested as short communications.
They asked you to remove some unnecessary and make it very brief. In some journals, they are also research articles with result and discussion, but due to the fact that many of such reports have little data to come to the term of a full research article, they, therefore, make them "short communication" instead of rejecting them. In principle, your references are somewhat around 10. Your whole number of pages should be between 1-5 pages.
Briefly from the historic background, this type of article is precisely meant to disseminate research info at the earlier stage of research investigation to the scientific community. They read your wonderful piece of info ahead of finishing your whole robust research, eventually. It helps to feed the public important information rapidly than waiting unnecessarily to the end of an investigation that may last for months or even years. It is about reporting some earlier findings of an investigation. It could be a page or thereabouts. Therefore, a short communication is not useless, even though, I doubt its citations are used in the WoS to calculate impact factor for any journal, simply put, only the full research and review articles are better embraced. That said, it is never any concern of an author.
Short communication articles do vary with journal specifications. Some journals may regard any article less than six pages as short communication, while other may be specific on numbers of words, such as 1000 words etc. There are journal that specifically request for short communication with maximum pages or words specified. Where this is requested for, you may have to collapse multiple tables in manageable numbers to be accommodated.
Go to Journal home and read the gudelines. I think it will help you to write the paper as they mentioned.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Linguistics
- Philology
- Classical Philology
- Manuscripts