Embracing Letters to the Editor: Classifying Types of Letters into Disagreement, Agreement, and Complementary.

ABSTRACT: "Letters to the Editor" that address original articles significantly contribute to medical literature. Utilizing letters published in obstetrics and gynecology journals as a study model, I aimed to classify letters according to their context, providing a valuable framework for readers to comprehend the significance of letters and for authors to effectively write them. Using a sample of 40 recent letters from the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research (JOGR), I classified letters into three main categories based on their attitude to addressed articles: Disagreement, Agreement, and Complementary. I further subclassified each category into subcategories, including "Interpretation claim," "Data addition," and "Historical viewpoint." The same procedure was carried out for the 24 most re

SUBMITTER: Matsubara S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11543308 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature