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EDITORIAL
Systematic Reviews: What Every Young Researcher
Needs to Know
Vladimir V. Li 12 *, Eduard A. Voskanyan 1 2
1 International Student's Journal of Medicine, Almaty, Kazakhstan 2 Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
A seminar on the theme: "International guidelines for systematic reviews" was held on November 25, at Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University. The seminar was prepared and presented by Armen Yuri Gasparyan, who is the Editor of Rheumatology and Editing, Writing & Publishing sections of the Journal of Korean Medical Science (Seoul, Korea) and Associate Editor of Rheumatology International (Springer). Student Scientific Society (SSS) members and Editorial Board of International Student's Journal of Medicine (ISJM) were invited to participate in the scientific event.
The seminar discussed about which articles are the most relevant at the moment. For a number of reasons, review papers were attributed to those. Firstly, their informativeness and popularity, review articles are welcome by many publishers, contain a variety of issues for the citation, to the same they are highly readable. Secondly, their practical importance, contain information that can be useful for practitioners, any dissertation begins and ends with an overview. Interesting fact, Phd assignment was discussed in Croatia after one systematic review.
Examples of reviews: advanced expert reviews, the traditional surveys with the systematic search of the references, qualitative systematic reviews, quantitative systematic reviews. But writing a review itself does not guarantee that it will be published, and if it's published, that it will be red and cited.
Not only good content and relevant information increase chances for publication, but also the proper execution of the article, both visual and structural parts of it.
Like any other article, review paper begins with a title. EASE( European Association of Science Editors) recommendations were mentioned for
Recieved: 15 March 2016/ Accepted: 20 March 2016/ Published online: 31 March 2016
* Address for Correspondence: Vladimir V. Li, 040700 Titova Street-64, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Tel.: +7-777-831-0567; Email: [email protected]
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authors and translators of scientific articles, that have to be published in English. The following recommendations are offered for the title creation: 1) title of the article should fully reflect the essence, be short, clear, understandable for specialists from other areas, contain the main keywords; 2) in the title of a review paper a question can be put, answer to this question must be contained directly in the conclusion of the work; 3) editors may propose revised title; 4) the term "systematic review" should only be used in the title of a systematic review.
The article should contain a clear consistent structure, which should be as follows: 1) structured abstract (IMRAD- introduction, methods, results and discussion); 2) no more than five relevant keywords from the MeSH thesaurus of PubMed, EMtree etc.; 3) introduction - to justify the novelty in global aspect, to write a purpose; 4) sections of review should be submitted and highlighted.
Picture 1. Armen Yuri Gasparyan is responding to participants'
questions
Regarding the visual component of the article, it welcomes visual elements such as tables, charts, diagrams. They should fit into the article and contain valuable information. They may reflect the analysis of extremely important data, with a large statistical sample, high evidentiality and own comments based on the "+", "-" sides of the research. They should
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Picture 2. The Editorial Board of International Student's Journal of Medicine with Armen Yuri Gasparyan
not fully repeat the text written in the paper. Various ilustrations also adorn article, 3-4 original, easy perceivable pictures(resolution should not be less than 300-600 dpi) may complement article well.
Review implies an information search, that should also be reflected in the review article. Thus, features of a systematic, evidence-based source search are: unbiased search that includes at least 2-3 highly selective evidence bases, such as MEDLINE, Cochrane, Scopus, Web of Science; link to highly cited sources (Scopus Cited by); time period of the information, for the anatomy it's about 20-30 years, pharmacology -5-7 years. Do not engage in self-citation, it should be reduced to 3-5 links.
Unpublished data, old and not visible monographs, abstracts, annotations, theses, web links, obsolete articles should be excluded from the list.
Finally, after writing an article You need to select a journal for its publication, You need to soberly assess strong and weak sides and pay attention to the following factors when choosing a publisher: the impact factor, indexing, prestige of the journal, relevance of subjects, level of acceptance and rejections for publication, consideration (review) time, professionalism of editors, quality of reviews, previous work experience with the magazine, recommendations of colleagues, which were published in this journal, international status, open access model, availability and the amount of payment for publication promotion in social networks, media responses to the publications in the journal.
Writing a scientific paper is a laborious and time consuming process, which requires preparation, and thorough approach, otherwise no matter how important is your study, it may remain unnoticed.
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