Avoiding Mistakes While Writing Scientific Manuscripts In Health Sciences

INTRODUCTION: This article is part of a special series designed to help authors in the process of scientific writing. OBJECTIVE: To address common mistakes that researchers commit while writing a manuscript, in order to understand and optimize the process of writing a new research paper. METHODS: Th...

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Main Authors: Faddi Ghassan Saleh Velez, Camila Pinto Bonin, Maria Regina Chalita, Denise Pinheiro Falcão, Felipe Fregni, Rivadávio Fernandes Batista de Amorim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brazilian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology 2024-11-01
Series:Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging
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Online Access:https://cdn.publisher.gn1.link/ggaging.com/pdf/v10n2a02.pdf
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Summary:INTRODUCTION: This article is part of a special series designed to help authors in the process of scientific writing. OBJECTIVE: To address common mistakes that researchers commit while writing a manuscript, in order to understand and optimize the process of writing a new research paper. METHODS: The authors made a nonsystematic search in the current literature (PubMed) to retrieve papers that address the most frequent mistakes found by editors, peer reviewers, journals and authors. RESULTS: According to the search results, key findings about the most common mistakes for each section of a manuscript were described (introduction section, methods section, results section, discussion section, conclusion section, references, title and abstract). CONCLUSION: There is a great amount of avoidable mistakes in each section of a scientific manuscript. Overall, among the most common mistakes are missing data, incomplete sections, excessive report of current literature or reporting data in an inadequate section.
ISSN:2447-2123