Caveats for Scientific Publication in the Modern Marketplace

[摘要] The articles of a printed scientific journal are dressed deliberately in the same monotonous house style. This uniformity is expected to minimize a reader's distraction from the logical sequence of the presented material. It can also obscure the origin, complexity, and significance of the article. Increasingly, a brevity desirable to both the reader and the journal is added to this presentational anonymity. As a result, the publication of clinical trials as printed journal articles is already something of a shorthand. The Editors of printed journals are turning to other media to extend the possibilities of presentation. For example, one journal is converting to a condensed template print publication of research articles, with full papers accessible online (1). The currently available latitude for authors within each section of an article, whether in print or online, still allows the benefit of their perspective. Ultimately, a progressive publication shorthand might put at risk the capacity for informed scientific skepticism by a forced narrowing of that potential.

[学科分类] 泌尿医学

[关键词] Bone marrow necrosis;Sickle cell disease;Hyperhemolysis syndrome