I have mentioned in a previous post that I am a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Nutrition. To explain that further, let me describe what researchers in life sciences do after they emerge from their labs, the field, or other research venues armed with data.
There's basically two things people do with their research results. Very often they do both of them, but one of them is more important than the other. OK, enough suspense, so what are these things? One of them is to submit their research results to a scientific meeting. If the organizers deemed it worth presenting, the results is presented either in a 10 to 15 minute talk, or in a form of a "poster". The poster is usually 4 feet tall and 8 feet across where people lay out their research.
The other, and the more important thing, is to publish the research results in a "peer-reviewed journal". So the researchers write up the research in a specified format, send the "manuscript" to a journal. The editor will then send it to 2-3 "reviewers" who will critique the manuscript. Reviewers are experts in the particular topic. The editor gets comments back from the reviewers, and decide whether to reject the paper, or ask for revisions and then re-consider accepting the paper.
Scientific journals usually have an Editorial Board, which is a group of experienced reviewers who will review many manuscripts each year. There are also ad hoc reviewers, whom the editor invites to review a manuscript here and there once a while.
In high quality journals, the vast majority of manuscripts do not get accepted the first time. If the author gets a notice to revise the manuscript and re-submit again, it is considered good news. I actually got a "congratulations" from one of my professors when I submitted my very first manuscript to a journal and received a "revise and resubmit" letter. The whole review and revise process easily takes 5-6 months. Then it is a few more months before the manuscript is published -- by then it is called a "paper".
Once it is published, the mass media may pick it up and run news reports and articles, and interview the lead author on it.
There's basically two things people do with their research results. Very often they do both of them, but one of them is more important than the other. OK, enough suspense, so what are these things? One of them is to submit their research results to a scientific meeting. If the organizers deemed it worth presenting, the results is presented either in a 10 to 15 minute talk, or in a form of a "poster". The poster is usually 4 feet tall and 8 feet across where people lay out their research.
The other, and the more important thing, is to publish the research results in a "peer-reviewed journal". So the researchers write up the research in a specified format, send the "manuscript" to a journal. The editor will then send it to 2-3 "reviewers" who will critique the manuscript. Reviewers are experts in the particular topic. The editor gets comments back from the reviewers, and decide whether to reject the paper, or ask for revisions and then re-consider accepting the paper.
Scientific journals usually have an Editorial Board, which is a group of experienced reviewers who will review many manuscripts each year. There are also ad hoc reviewers, whom the editor invites to review a manuscript here and there once a while.
In high quality journals, the vast majority of manuscripts do not get accepted the first time. If the author gets a notice to revise the manuscript and re-submit again, it is considered good news. I actually got a "congratulations" from one of my professors when I submitted my very first manuscript to a journal and received a "revise and resubmit" letter. The whole review and revise process easily takes 5-6 months. Then it is a few more months before the manuscript is published -- by then it is called a "paper".
Once it is published, the mass media may pick it up and run news reports and articles, and interview the lead author on it.
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