Publish or perish: Getting your simulation results published

Suzie Kardong-Edgren PhD, RN, ANEF Almost Associate Professor

Washington State University Editor-in-Chief

Clinical Simulation in Nursing

Disclosure: Paid stipend from Elsevier Publishing as Editor in Chief

of Clinical Simulation in Nursing

Objectives

• Describe 3 criteria an editor looks for in an article

• Describe 3 steps to successful publication of a manuscript

What do editors look for?

• Review articles

• New uses of any kind of clinical simulation

• Standardized patients

• Use of simulation to teach…

• Well executed research articles

• New and novel…

Get a good idea

• List serve questions and comments

• Brain storming sessions

• Tweets

• Thoughtful discussions in Starbucks/the bar

• Listening at a conference

• Blogs

• From educational literature/websites

• Educause

Glassick’s six criteria

Clear goals/hypotheses/research questions

Adequate preparation

A literature review is not a litany of what has been done before

Appropriate methods

Significant results

Effective presentation

Reflective critique

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Write the abstract last…

The title is important…especially in simulation journals

Pick the right journal for your manuscript

Call or email an editor to talk about a topic

Consider your audience

Different styles for writing Scientific reporting

How we did it Opinion pieces

Read several articles like the type you are writing, in the journal you

are going to submit to...

“even when novice researchers include all the relevant facts in their

first manuscripts, peer reviewers often report a perception that something is

wrong with the manuscript.” Regan & Pietrobon, 2010

You can only submit a manuscript to ONE journal at a time…

really!!!!

Read: Guidelines for Authors

of the journal… Do what it says…

Review by colleagues is nice BUT…

• Ask them to be critical

• No matter what, you will still need to satisfy 2-3 reviewers from the journal…

• So…send it in!

Uploading a manuscript can be exhausting

Duties of the corresponding author

• READ THE DUTIES

• Will receive all correspondence about manuscript

• Responsible for all copyright issues

• Responsible for showing proofs to all authors for approval

• Responsible for author order

The peer review process… “just bidness”

Rewriting and editing your work

• Rewriting is the norm

• 2-3 edits is normal

• Read your work out loud

• Recheck after spell check

• Walk away…and read again in a week

There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

-Justice Brandeis

Responding to Reviewers

• Consider what is said

• Use a grid to explain what you did to address reviewers …or did not…say why

• Address each comment

• Final decision is the editors

Conflicting reviews

• Read and consider

• Address in your reply grid

• Explain your reasoning…

• It is ok to call an editor…

• Editor has final say

Questions? Suzie Kardong-Edgren PhD, RN, ANEF

Editor-in-Chief: Clinical Simulation in Nursing sedgren@wsu.edu