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Writing scientific manuscripts: most common mistakes

Overview of attention for article published in Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics, October 2017
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Title
Writing scientific manuscripts: most common mistakes
Published in
Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics, October 2017
DOI 10.1590/2177-6709.22.5.113-117.sar
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Authors

Jorge Faber

Abstract

I have had the privilege of serving as editor-in-chief for 11 years of two scientific journals: The Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics and the Journal of the World Federation of Orthodontists. I had the opportunity to read and correct thousands of manuscripts. This experience was greatly enriching, because reading a text professionally completely differs from the perspective of readers in general. The routine practice of correcting manuscripts has made me realize that some errors recur frequently. To help authors to improve their manuscripts before submission, these problems are discussed here in the order that they appear in conventional manuscript sections.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 108 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 14 13%
Researcher 13 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 11%
Student > Master 11 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 9%
Other 31 29%
Unknown 17 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 9%
Linguistics 9 8%
Social Sciences 9 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Other 32 30%
Unknown 22 20%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 April 2020.
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#3,609,898
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Outputs from Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics
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Outputs of similar age from Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics
#2
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