Editorial: Slovo a slovesnost editorial policies and practices

Article review writing format, steps, examples and illustration PDF Compiled by Mohammed Yismaw , 2021

The purpose of this document is to help students and researchers understand how a review of an academic journal is conducted and reported in different fields of study. Review articles in academic journals that analyze or discuss researches previously published by others, rather than reporting new research results or findings. Summaries and critiques are two ways to write a review of a scientific journal article. Both types of writing ask you first to read and understand an article from the primary literature about your topic. The summary involves briefly but accurately stating the key points of the article for a reader who has not read the original article. The critique begins by summarizing the article and then analyzes and evaluates the author’s research. Summaries and critiques help you learn to synthesize information from different sources and are usually limited to two pages maximum.

D espite the increasing number of scientific publications, many physicians find themselves with less and less time to read what others have written. Selection, reading, and critical appraisal of publications is, however, necessary to stay up to date in one's field. This is also demanded by the precepts of evidence-based medicine (1, 2).

In the developing and changing world, it is very important to present information to the service of humanity. Scientific articles, one of the ways of conveying information in written form, are defined as a written and published report describing original research results. The writing of a scientific research paper is a professional nature but very difficult task that requires significant knowledge, experience, and skill. The most important point that the researcher should know for scientific articles is that the article is scientific in nature and clear that the readers can understand. The accepted order in a scientific research article written in accordance with the writing criteria is title, abstract, introduction, material-method, results, discussion, and references, and each section has its own specific writing rules. The discussion section, which is among the article sections, is the most difficult part to write, although it is easy to write in terms of content. In this section, the researcher should critically investigate his own results and those of other researchers and interpret his conclusions from a scientific point of view. In this section, the researcher conveys his views, acceptances, and criticisms on the subject to the reader and the scientific world. In this review, it is aimed to emphasize the elements that should be included in the discussion section of a quantitative research article in line with the literature, and some important points to make the article attractive and acceptable for publication, especially for researchers who are just starting out in research writing.

2020

Background: Review studies (Literature review) are instructive scholarly papers with low cost of preparation and acceptable novelty and they are considered interesting material for scientific journals. These articles summarize previously published studies and provide a critical and useful analysis of the current literature in a particular topic through summarizing, classification, and comparison of related research papers.Methods: Data from international databases including PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar and Web of science were collected and evaluated.Results and conclusion: In this paper, a brief glance and instruction about the organizational pattern of the text and appropriate writing methods in narrative review articles were provided for enthusiastic students who want to take steps in this field.

2015

and key words (English and Polish versions on separate pages – if article is meant for publication in both English and Polish), taking the following structure into account: Full title of the work, summary about 250 words with division into parts: (in English) Purpose. Basic procedures. Main findings. Conclusions (in Polish: Cel pracy. Materiały i metody. Wyniki. Wnioski), keywords containing from 3 to 15 words (preferably using the MeSH dictionary); The main body of the text (in English and Polish) The main body of the text should include the following parts: Introduction. Introduction acquaints the reader with the subject of the article and places it against the background of existing research (literature review). At the end of the Introduction, the aim, research problems and hypotheses should be clearly stated. Material and methods. An accurate description of the research subject (material) should be presented in the methodological part. The number of subjects, their age, sex and ...

2022

Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2009

In the era of evidence-based medicine, one of the most important skills a physician needs is the ability to analyze scientific literature critically. This is necessary to keep medical knowledge up to date and to ensure optimal patient care. The aim of this paper is to present an accessible introduction into critical appraisal of scientific articles. Using a selection of international literature, the reader is introduced to the principles of critical reading of scientific articles in medicine. For the sake of conciseness, detailed description of statistical methods is omitted. Widely accepted principles for critically appraising scientific articles are outlined. Basic knowledge of study design, structuring of an article, the role of different sections, of statistical presentations as well as sources of error and limitation are presented. The reader does not require extensive methodological knowledge. As far as necessary for critical appraisal of scientific articles, differences in re...