Like most disciplines, injury prevention has a small library of books devoted to the subject. I am interested in which of those books we use to teach injury epidemiology and injury prevention practice. Of course, there are a number of titles out there that appeal to a non-technical audience. David Hemenway’s While We Were Sleeping: Success […]
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Fillers.. what you may be missing
Most editors of print journals hate ‘white space’ i.e., space at the end of a paper that is simply empty. It seems such a waste especially when print is so precious. So we try to fill those spaces with interesting tidbits, sometimes amusing, often just snippets of news items not sufficiently detailed to warrant including […]
Solid advice for authors (and researchers)
A discussion by World Association of Medical Editors on self-plagiarism prompted Iain Chalmers, one of the Cochrane pioneers at Oxford University, to remind us of that there are more important issues to contend with. He wrote: “Last week I was at a 2-day meeting hosted by the EQUATOR Network and the German Cochrane Centre. The standard […]
The upside of being rejected
When I taught a writing course I reminded my students that scientific writing was an iterative process involving many revisions. Hence, when a paper is rejected following a reasonable or better review, it should be seen as an opportunity for improvement. It seems my view is nicely reinforced by a recent paper in The Scientist […]
Pay-per-Article pilot program
There continues to be much confusion about the merits of Open Access journals. For readers, there is no doubt they are welcome. Print journals in many libraries are costly and in some cases the costs are passed on to the reader. So I was interested to find an article in The Scientist about a new […]
Listen and learn from others to prevent injury
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) Preventing injuries needs more than just researchers to develop and evaluate interventions. It also needs more than just professionals or practitioners to implement programs and safety measures. It needs both. The August 2012 46(10) issue of the British Journal of […]
Physical activity promotion without injury prevention is doomed to fail
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) Arguably two of the most pressing health behaviours that need priority attention in today’s world are those needed to reduce the risk of injury (across different settings and contexts) and those required to ensure more people are more physically active. A long […]
Is it any wonder that concussion prevention is not working?
Cross Fertilising Injury Prevention (IP) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) If any topic has to take the top prize for the most talked about sports injury issue globally in 2012, surely that has to be won by concussion, or head injury. Both scientific and public commentary has debated a range of prevention […]
The road to academic success is paved with stylish academic writing | Impact of Social Sciences
The road to academic success is paved with stylish academic writing | Impact of Social Sciences. This is sort of a post script to my last blog where I invited you to try this author’s neat little tool for analysing writing. Readers may be interested in a piece she wrote for the LSE Journal which […]
Diagnose your writing
Most authors struggle to improve their writing. I certainly do. So I was pleased when a colleague sent me the link below. It is a ‘quick and dirty’ way to diagnose your writing. You may not agree but it is fun and easy, so worth a try. For the record, I submitted some of the […]