1. HOW TO WRITE A PAPER FOR PUBLICATION IN A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL

2. HOW TO WRITE A PAPER FOR A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL Kenneth Kaushansky (soon to be ex-) Editor-in-Chief, BLOOD Department of Medicine University of California San Diego

3. PROJECTS / TOPICS Barry Bonds vs. Pete Rose

4. GETTING THE WRITING STARTED The Figures / The Results vs. The Introduction / Discussion

5. WHAT TO INCLUDE LUMPERS vs. SPLITTERS MPU (Minimum Publishable Unit)

6. WHEN TO START WRITING Before Its Too Late Before Its Done

7. WHO TO INCLUDE AS AUTHORS You – the one that did the work Your Boss Your Lab Technologist Your collaborators

8. AUTHORSHIP UNIFORM REQUIREMENTS FOR MANUSCRIPTS International Committee of Medical Journal Editors All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for its content. Authorship credit should be based solely on substantial contributions to (a) conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data; and to (b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and on final approval of the version to be published. Conditions (a), (b) and © must be met. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Any part of an article critical to its main conclusion must be the responsibility of at least one author. Editors may ask authors to describe what each contributed; this information may be published.

9. WHO TO INCLUDE AS AUTHORS Get it straight from the outset

10. CRITERIA FOR JOURNAL ACCEPTANCE Appropriateness Impact Quality Novelty

11. CHOOSE A JOURNAL General Interest Nature, Science, Cell, NEJM EMBO J, PNAS, JCI, JBC, AIM BBRC, FEBS Letters Specialty Journals Blood, Circulation, JCO Exp Hematol, BJH Acta Hematologica, Clin Lab Hematology

12. CHOOSE A JOURNAL Goal: Rapid dissemination of interesting basic scientific or clinical information How often does target population read that particular journal? How often does the readership of the target journal read your topic? What is the impact of the journal?

13. CHOOSE A JOURNAL Blood Readership Survey Mailed to all recipients, 14% response rate No incentive to respond What other journals do you read as or more frequently than BLOOD? NEJM 73%Br J Haematol23% JCO 51%Thromb Haemost17% Science 34%PNAS16% Nature 26%Cell 12%

14. CHOOSE A JOURNAL Impact Factor Number Citations / Number of Articles Impact Factors for Blood and Related Journals Journal1998199920002001 JCI 9.310.912.014.1 BLOOD 8.4 8.8 9.0 9.3 JCO 8.3 8.0 8.8 8.5 JBC 7.2 7.7 7.4 7.3 Exp Heme 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.3 BJH 3.2 3.2 3.1 2.8

15. THE SUBMISSION PROCESS Electronic Submissions Potential Conflicts of Interest Reagents Sharing Policies Suggested Editors/Reviewers

16. THE REVIEW PROCESS Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Reviewer(s) Confidential Comments Comments To The Authors Associate Editor Authors Final Check Revision New Journal

17. THE REVIEW PROCESS BLOOD Manuscript Statistics, 2002 Submissions: 3959 No. M/S published 1176 Regular Papers 36% Brief Reports 27% How I Treat 33% Review Papers 42% Correspondence 42% No. Pages published 8818 Time to First Decision 28.5d

18. THE REVIEW PROCESS Major Issues in the Peer-Review System Why not just publish everything? Biased reviewers Stolen ideas Delaying of papers for personal reasons Pressure from Department Chairs to work on other things We all have a lot of things to do Best reviewers are the busiest of all

19. THE REVIEW PROCESS Major Issues in the Peer-Review System The paper journal is not dead 5% of Blood readers use online only 46% readers expect they will never give up paper entirely Paper and online versions used for different purposes Impressive volunteerism 2486 different people have reviewed for Blood this year 17 reviewers handled >10 papers this year Peer-review adds quality

20. THE REVIEW PROCESS Acknowledgments We would like to thank Dr Hans Reimer Rodewald (Basel, Switzerland) for discussions and for kindly providing WB-W/+ mice; Dr Ana Cumano (Paris, France) for critically reviewing the manuscript; and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

21. WHAT TO EXPECT “ Please return the figures when the manuscript is rejected…”

22. SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT Plagiarism Sentences Whole sections of text Readers Reviewers Unattributed Figures Fraudulent Data Photoshop data Inverted figures Gel splicing Duplicate Publication

23. Important announcement to authors: Electronic submission of manuscripts invited Blood is proud to announce the recent launch of its web-based peer review system, Blood Manuscript Central. We invite all authors to submit online any NEW MANUSCRIPTS that are to be considered for publication in Blood. Use the following URL: http://blood.manuscriptcentral.com. http://blood.manuscriptcentral.com. For further information, call the Central Editorial Office at 202-776-0548 (e-mail: editorial@hematology.org). Please read the revised Author Guide before submitting your paper online. The Author Guide is available online at http://www.bloodjournal.org/misc/ifora.shtml.editorial@hematology.orghttp://www.bloodjournal.org/misc/ifora.shtml