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- Research Article
- Review Article
- Editorial
- Case Report
- Short Communication
Research Article
These are detailed studies reporting original research and are classified as primary literature. They include hypothesis, background study, methods, results, interpretation of findings, and a discussion of possible implications. Original research articles are long, with the word limit ranging from 3000 to 6000, and can even go up to 12000 words for some journals. These require a significant investment of time.
- Follows the outline of Introduction, Materials, Methods, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgement, conflict of interest, funding source (grant number), and References.
- Supported by a significant and relevant amount of data.
- Data should have been developed by the author(s).
- Conclusions are based primarily on the data presented and compared to the published literature.
Review Article
Review articles give an overview of existing literature in a field, often identifying specific problems or issues and analyzing information from available published work on the topic with a balanced perspective. These are considered secondary literature and can be a particularly efficient way for early career researchers to begin publishing. Review articles can be of three types: literature reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. Review articles are usually long, with the maximum word limit being 3000-5000 or even more.
- Authors suggestion
- The topic is relatively broad in scope
- The review article should be on-topic which is of interest to a wide readership.
- Review articles should have comprehensive coverage of a topic in clear and lucid language with representative figures and images.
- Represents an overview of published information and data from many authors and sources
- Does not contain original data (to any great extent).
- Abstract and keywords are must.
- Usually includes a large number of references.
Editorial
Editorials are short, invited opinion pieces that discuss an issue of immediate importance to the translational research community. Editorials should have fewer than 1000 words total, no abstract, a minimal number of references (definitely no more than 5), and no figures or tables (although they do have a photograph of the author as an illustration).
- Written by the OA Text Editors, Associate Editors, or Invited Guest Editors on a variety of subjects of interest to the Journal readers typically shorter than one page.
Case Report
A case report presents the details of real patient cases from medical or clinical practice. The cases presented are usually those that contribute significantly to the existing knowledge in the field. The study is expected to discuss the signs, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of a disease. These are considered primary literature and usually have a word count similar to that of an original article.
- Case Reports must provide an original description of a previously unreported entity or report a new presentation of a known disease or a new perspective of the case which poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.
- Case Reports should include a comprehensive review of similar cases and state the differences between the present case and previous cases.
- Case reports should be accompanied by clinical, radiological, and pathologic images.
Short Communication
- Short Communications are limited to 1000 words and are not subdivided.
- The paper should contain an abstract, main body, and references, and contain no more than 6 figures or tables, combined.
- The abstract is limited to 100 words.
- They aim to report new ideas, recent advances in modeling and software.
