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28 August 2007

Helping veterinary professionals to improve their scientific output in peer-reviewed journals



MedicalGhostWriting Scientific Consulting

Veterinary professionals often have great energy and great ideas in science, but sometimes nothing gets done. MedicalGhostWriting is a novel scientific consulting service specializing in veterinary medicine with a mission to help its clients to become high-performance scientists. While tutoring students and helping colleagues to submit and publish their research, we were made aware of a growing need for scientific consulting and editing services.

But why is it important that veterinarians improve their scientific output? Quite simply, veterinary research opens many doors--to animals' health, to knowledge, to academic prestige, and to novel personal achievements. Improving a scientist's literature output requires basically two steps: strategic direction and management of research programs, and assistance with the publication of research findings. MedicalGhostWriting firstly offers to the veterinary community a full range of scientific design services, including help in data collection, literature/database search, and sound statistical analysis with professional software. The facility staff includes scientists with the technical expertise required to conduct veterinary research, information specialists who have extensive experience in designing effective research strategies, data analysts to assist veterinary physician in analyzing their data, and professional reviewers to ensure that the documents are scientifically correct.

The other key point is the correct presentation of scientific data. No matter how good veterinary science is, the chances of acceptance of a manuscript for publication decline substantially if the writing is confusing, illogical, or incorrect. We understand that manuscripts destined for review by peers are judged not only by the quality of the research they contain, but also by how well they are written and how easily the reader can understand them. Here are some examples of editing:

Submitted by a Client

In our previous experiences, the earlier the tumor relapse, the worse outcome could be expected even after therapy. However, some early relapse diseases did have good outcomes. In contrast to those with early relapse tumors, unsatisfied outcomes were not uncommon in those with late recurrence dogs. We believed that tumor biology might play an important role in influencing prognosis.

Edited by Dr. Emanuele

We have previously demonstrated that late relapse is associated with a better outcome than relapse occurring within the first months from the time of diagnosis, regardless of therapy. Nonetheless, some dogs with late relapsed cancer may have an unfavorable prognosis. It is thus posited that the underlying tumor biology may play a role in clinical outcome.

If you do not have the time for the intensive editing that veterinary writing demands, if English is not your first language, or if you have personnel in your laboratory who have not yet acquired the writing expertise to publish in peer-reviewed journals, then MedicalGhostWriting will benefit you. The facility often provides substantive editing for non-native English speakers. When needed, the editors at MedicalGhostWriting will rewrite sentences, eliminate redundancy, restructure paragraphs, and condense materials so that the manuscript clearly and effectively presents its information to the intended audience. Even more importantly, MedicalGhostWriting offers to all clients a complete package of services for journal submissions, including unlimited revisions of the manuscript, editing of cover letters and supplementary documents, journal-specific formatting of references, and ensuring that all required elements of the submission checklist are completed. If you have made it this far it is likely that you are wondering how much we charge. All assignments are accepted on a per-project basis. Our editing fee is € 310 for full-length manuscripts and € 450 for review manuscripts. The easiest way to send a manuscript or a research project is to e-mail (info@medicalghostwriting.net) them to the facility, with the document attached as a Microsoft Word document file. The facility staff will edit the manuscript electronically using Word's revision function and return it promptly.

Manuscripts are generally returned in 5 to 7 business days, often sooner.