Effects of providing manuscript editing through a combination of in-house and external editing services in an academic hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Background

English editing services are effective for improving manuscript quality as well as providing learning opportunities for non-native English-speaking authors. Herein, we describe the effects of a combined system of in-house and external editing services for handling large volumes of editing requests and providing personalized editing service in academic hospitals.

Methods

We established the Scientific Publications Team (SPT), an in-house editing team in Asan Medical Center in Seoul, Korea. The SPT is composed of two professional editors who manage editing requests sent to external companies while also providing one-on-one in-house editing services. We gathered author satisfaction data from 936 surveys between July 2017 and December 2018 and analyzed the number of ed

SUBMITTER: Lim JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6615627 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature