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How to write a world class paper Anthony P.F. Turner 2008 10th Biosensors Conference, Shanghai Professor Anthony P.F. Turner Editor-In-Chief, Biosensors Bioelectronics, Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology, Commercial Director, Cranfield Health, Director Cranfield Ventures PhD, DSc, FRSC Founder and Editor of BB since 1985 Cranfield University A.p.turner@cranfield.ac.uk Outline Current status of Chinese articles Why do scientists publish? Ethical issues Revision, and response to reviewers What gets you accepted? How to write a good manuscript for an international journal 1.preparations before starting 2.construction of an article 3.technical details Current status of Chinese articles High quantity— exponential growth since 1999 Low quality— China is at 70% of the world average Comparison of number of Chinese submissions and accepted articles in BB How can Chinese authors do better? English is poor Papers which are deeply out of scope of our journal Failure to format the paper according to the guide for authors Inadequate response to reviewers Multiple submissions Submission of paper already published in Chinese Plagiarism (especially of small parts of a paper) And who has to deal with it? Editors and reviewers: 1.The most precious resource of a journal! 2.Practicing scientists, even leaders in their fields 3.Busy people doing their own research, writing and teaching, and working for journals in their spare time, to contribute to science 4.Editors may receive a small payment, but reviewers are UNPAID Your personal reason for publishing Why should scientists publish? Scientists publish to share with the science COMMUNITY something that advances, not repeats, knowledge and understanding in a certain field. To present new, original results of methods To rationalize published results To present a review of the field or to summarize a particular topic Journal publishers do not want zero-cited articles Editors no