I Spent Those Years In the Operating Room Fighting Monsters

The earth is round, and at the same time node, half of them are doomed to fall asleep in the middle of the night, and the other half of them are working hard.

JAMA's editorial department, editor Kleis is just one of the editorial departments.

As editors of top journals, they are responsible for not only reviewing, accepting and rejecting manuscripts, but also reviewing manuscripts that may be published in detail and word by word.

It is no exaggeration to say that there are at least hundreds of articles submitted to JAMA every day. This review process is very tedious.

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However, as one of the four major medical journals, JAMA selects high-quality articles for publication as much as possible, and reviews the submissions in detail, which is a must.

After lunch, Kleis continued to open the magazine's submission background.

Then I selected one of the earliest submissions, the first draft of the article that had not yet been reviewed, and reviewed it.

Although it is the earliest and has not had time to review, in fact, it is also an article sent a day ago. There are at least dozens of editors in the editorial department doing cross-review work.

Other editors are reviewing contributions from yesterday or even the day before.

For articles that cannot be published, after a few glances, you can choose to refuse.

But when I encounter a good article, sometimes it is very difficult to review it in one day, unless there are structural errors or obvious flaws, and the manuscript is directly rejected.

When reviewing the submission of an article, it is natural to start with the title.

recovery unit?

Rehabilitation department to vote for JAMA?

What are you thinking about?

The question seemed a bit watery. After reading the question, Clay frowned.

Then I looked at the author and the country it was sent to.

China.

Chinese.

In Clay's mind, he almost had a general impression of this article.

To be honest, manuscripts from China will be marked with colored colors in all sci journals. After all, in the world, although some academic falsehoods are not the only ones in China.

However, in the past decade or two, there has been a phenomenon of academic fraud, and more of it comes from China, which is in a growing period of development.

And this kind of academic fraud is repeated.

Some have plagiarized, some have stolen the results, some have been torn between different research groups, and some research groups have not even obtained the ethics approval, and then sent it, and finally made up the ethics approval result.

A mess.

Therefore, many editors will pay attention to some of the Chinese scholars they are familiar with, and ordinary authors will look at it with colored eyes.

However, with rigor and patience.

Claes was still patient, and read it carefully.

After reading the abstract, he found that this article seemed a bit interesting.

It's just that these lines and sentences are quite immature, and there are some grammar expressions that are not particularly idiomatic, but the content inside is what makes Clay interested.

Read on.

After reading the introduction, Claes was immediately attracted.

Whether an article is well written or not, see the discussion.

Whether it can attract people or not depends on the introduction.

The way this introduction is written is very enticing, at least, Kleis himself, is attracted by the arguments and the arguments presented in the introduction.

Layers are in-depth, quite layered,

It's like a hook that will keep you reading, interesting and detailed.

Strong logical ability combined with finding the right arguments to make interesting arguments.

This is a very good paper.

Read articles like this.

Makes people feel comfortable.

Well, it's comfort.

Just looking at the introduction, Claes thinks that this article, even if it can't be published in JAMA, it is quite good to post it to the sub-journal under JAMA.

Then, Clay began to read the methods and results in detail.

These two parts are the author's own elaboration of the whole process, so the readability is not very large, as long as there are errors in them and whether they are rigorous enough.

Clay started to read it down, nodding his head incessantly.

Then his whole head began to become insufficient. Although he did not have to review the process of the results and the correctness of the data in the article, the huge tabular data, the complex and numerous angles and the physical symbol of force Newton N...

Even after sorting, some statistical charts, although generally speaking, are very beautiful and detailed, and the content is very rich.

Kleis felt that writing a chart definitely exceeded the amount of information that the entire article could express.

Then I finally turned the first page, and then looked at the second and third pages.

Chris started scratching his hair!

Oh MyGod, who is kidding me?

So many statistics?

Hundreds, thousands of raw data?

There are thousands of pieces of sorted data?

Who can tell me, who is joking with me, is it a graph made by a big team in the data department?

Is this a very large subject?

When he saw this, Kleis pulled the article to the top and looked at the author's name.

Lu, g;

Lin, Hui;

Kleis felt that these two people should not be unknown talents.

So, he began to search for the two.

The first is to see the article published by Lu Cheng, BritishJournalofSportsMedie.

Then it's gone.

...

Five hours later.

After watching the discussion, Chris.

Chris felt instantly.

Forget it, or submit the article directly. To review this article, you must ask for help. If you don't ask for help, you will be a fool.

So, Kleis sent the article directly to the editor-in-chief's mailbox, and then marked it: "An interesting article with no structural errors and strong logic. It is recommended to send it directly to external review."

After reading this one, Clay started to read the next one. As a result, the more he read, the more angry he became.

He kept yelling, what did he write?

The logic here?

The key structure is not clear.

...

The editor-in-chief is the person in charge of a journal, who is responsible for reviewing and sending out the articles that are intended to be accepted, allowing peer experts to give professional opinions.

Today, however, Wells has a headache.

Not every day, there are articles that meet the requirements and are sent to his mailbox.

But today, for some unknown reason, such a strange thing happened.

Two articles were sent at the same time, and the authors of the two articles were the same person.

If this was a joke, Wells would still wonder if it was April Fool's Day. It's just that the two articles were submitted successively by different editors, which proves that it is not a joke.

Instead, there are two editors in my editorial department. In the same day, they saw two different articles by the same author, and they both intend to recommend them for publication.

Figured this out, and Wells began to browse the articles.

Wells then fell into it.

Five hours later, Wells felt like he was going crazy.

What the **** is this?

But in a professional instinct,

Wells sent these two articles to several big names in statistics who have a deep friendship with JAMA magazine.

And also sent the article to several top professors in the rehabilitation department.

There are also some particularly professional things, and they are still needed to evaluate the authenticity of the writing of this article and whether it is clinically meaningful.

if not?

It's just a conjecture, an article that doesn't work or even runs counter to clinical practice, JAMA is not needed.

At the same time, for the sake of rigor.

...

this day.

A mathematics expert named Simon, unfortunately, received two requests for review articles from the magazine at the same time.

When Simon saw these three articles, his head was a little big.

And it's all about the medical department.

Immediately, Simon wanted to go crazy. After receiving the article, he kept scolding in the office: "Are the editors of these magazines all eating dry food?"

"Send something so simple to me, **** it, it's a waste of my time."

"They're all hindering my academic progress,"

But Simon can't help it. He is not very good at rejecting this kind of journal's review request.

This is where the web of relationships comes from.

Since it is simple, Simon feels that the data demonstration of the three literatures must be able to be done in three to five hours.

after an hour.

Simon is still in an article, brooding.

two hours later.

Simon was at his desk doing calculations with a pen.

Three hours later, Simon was still fiddling with the same article, cursing incessantly:

"Damn it, what's going on? Why didn't I do it well?"

"Or is there a problem with the data itself?"

"No, I can't tell it's wrong until I find the right data."

"But, God, please tell me, why is this kind of data processing and graphics from a medical journal and not a top math journal?"

"How big of a team did such a complicated thing calculate?"

"I think this month, I may have to work overtime."

"..."

...

Even more unfortunate than Simon.

A statistics professor started out with the same idea as Simon.

But when he got there, he was stunned to find that he was very good at processing data in the R language, how is it today?

Why can't I reproduce these images?

How did you do it?

Are these **** editors eating shit? Why don't you know the author's source code?

Do you think I have too much hair?

...

A day later, Simon responded to the JAMA editorial.

This article should not be reviewed by me.

So Simon responded:

"It is recommended to send it to experts in mechanics and physiology for re-examination. From the perspective of orthopedics and joint surgery, I highly recommend Lu's article to be published in your journal!"

...

After about six hours.

The editor-in-chief of JAMA Magazine, feels his head, once again, is getting bigger.

He looked at the expert's advice to send him out for an external trial, and sat on the spot with an expression of wanting to die.

"The Arthrologist let me send Physics and Physiology."

"The advice from the rehabilitation department was sent to statistics."

"The advice for statistics I sent to the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics."

"The mathematics department also asked me to send physics."

"Physics let me send Mechanics and Mechanics."

"God, didn't you bless me today?"

"I am your most honest believer!"

"..."

Wells finally chose to give up the idea of ​​reviewing the manuscript, and then contacted the original author directly by email.

The original author also cooperated and packaged all the verification process and delivered them as supplementary documents.

Only, after Wells downloaded the supplementary files!

I feel like my person is gone.

The original data, as many as hundreds of thousands, the calculation process, different statistical data, there are processes, there are results, and there are different stages of data...

Wells felt that this article seemed to be impossible to review at all!

You must know that the data, icons and various graphics that appear in the article are all processed, so that the data that is easier to read will exhaust some of the friends who have reviewed it. If these raw data are obtained, then?

The time may be in years.

However, Wells is very sensitive to capture the huge subject of the subject's work and the huge impact of the results.

So he planned to visit Lu Cheng in person, and then let Lu Cheng be the review editor of his own article, because Lu Cheng must be the person who knows his own article best.

If this article is lost due to its own magazine review problems, it will be a huge loss for the magazine.

However, Wells felt that for the sake of rigor, Wells contacted Lu Cheng again: "Dear Lu, our editorial department has already read the article and original data you sent, unfortunately, It takes a long time for us to proofread and review the data.”

"So during this process, I hope you can wait patiently."

"We will send an editor to China to contact you in person. Is your contact address real?"

When Lu Cheng saw Wells' message, he was slightly taken aback.

Lu Cheng thought the editorial department wanted him to add something~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After all, after listening to Fang Nixin, the process of JAMA submission and review is very cumbersome, and it may go through dozens of times or even on Hundreds of revisions, I hope Lu Cheng can be mentally prepared.

What does the editorial office mean when they come to Shashi in China?

"The mailing address is real, you can contact me through my email." Lu Cheng replied politely.

Then two days passed.

Wells and Cleiss transferred a plane to Shashi and landed, and then took a taxi to the address of the Second Xiangya Hospital.

Wells and Cleese asked if there was anyone named Lu Cheng in the hospital. He arrived at 7:00 p.m. Before, he could not send an email to Lu Cheng on the plane. After getting off the plane, he sent an email to Lu Cheng. Cheng did not return.

After they revealed their identities and showed them their documents, the people in the emergency room hurriedly reported the news that the editor-in-chief of JAMA was looking for Lu Cheng for the first time. .

Then Yu Youlin, the current director of emergency surgery in the emergency department, also came to the hospital to accompany him, and then, together with Wells and Cleese, came to the outside of the examination room where Lu Cheng was taking the test, and said apologetically: "Wells Professor, Professor Clays, I'm very sorry, Lu Cheng is still a doctoral student in our hospital, and is currently taking the medical statistics exam. So please wait a moment."

PhD?

student?

Medical Statistics Exam?

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