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EDITORIAL
Year : 2019  |  Volume : 9  |  Issue : 2  |  Page : 69

Workshops on scientific writing: Need of the hour


Department of Dentistry, Government Taluk Head Quarters Hospital, Malappuram, Kerala, India

Date of Submission24-Oct-2019
Date of Acceptance31-Oct-2019
Date of Web Publication3-Feb-2020

Correspondence Address:
Thorakkal Shamim
Department of Dentistry, Government Taluk Head Quarters Hospital, Malappuram, Kerala
India
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Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/ijmd.ijmd_51_19

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Shamim T. Workshops on scientific writing: Need of the hour. Indian J Multidiscip Dent 2019;9:69

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Shamim T. Workshops on scientific writing: Need of the hour. Indian J Multidiscip Dent [serial online] 2019 [cited 2024 Mar 19];9:69. Available from: https://www.ijmdent.com/text.asp?2019/9/2/69/277461



I will receive phone calls from my friends, my colleagues, my batch mates, and clinicians all over India regarding how to publish their study or case in a indexed journal, which prompted me to write this editorial in a multispecialty dental journal from a deemed university in Tamil Nadu. In our country, dental professionals working in academic institutions, hospitals, and clinics may come across clinical cases and research in various dental disciplines and find difficulty in transforming their research into manuscript, which add new insight to the dental literature. The aspiring authors may face various common dilemmas in scientific writing such as why and where to publish?; editing and compilation of article; usage of appropriate biostatistics for the research; and scientific misconduct such as plagiarism, duplicate publication, authorship dispute, and prey to predatory journals and hijacking journals.[1],[2],[3] It is interesting to see that even undergraduate research is appreciated by prominent medical journals such as Indian Journal of Medical Research, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, and National Medical Journal of India, and the above trend has to be adopted by the societies and associations of individual master dental specialties to elicit the research acumen of dental undergraduates studying in various dental schools in India. The above goal for ethical publishing may be fulfilled by conducting workshops on scientific writing by health universities for undergraduate students and postgraduate students, individual societies, and associations of master dental specialties for their members and Indian Dental Association for their members.



 
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Masic I. Ethical aspects and dilemmas of preparing, writing and publishing of the scientific papers in the biomedical journals. Acta Inform Med 2012;20:141-8.  Back to cited text no. 1
    
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Shamim T. The latest developments in plagiarism detection in medical literature. Eur Sci Editing 2012;38:56.  Back to cited text no. 2
    
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Shamim T. Polite invitation to submit article: Predatory journal's new strategy. Saudi J Anaesth 2019;13:281.  Back to cited text no. 3
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