Friday, January 17, 2014

World of Wordcraft: On Scientific Editing

Acad Psychiatry. 2014 Jan 16. [Epub ahead of print]

World of Wordcraft: On Scientific Editing.

Author information

  • Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA, andres.martin@yale.edu.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

The author reflects on lessons in becoming and being a psychiatry journal editor.

METHODS:

The author describes his transition from a writer to an editor and his development as an editor.

RESULTS:

Editors need to consider the originality, novelty, methodological rigor of manuscripts, as well as their prose and ethical integrity.

CONCLUSION:

The author hopes that others undertake the role of editor.

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