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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 editing requests and research publications by segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series data.

Results

The SPT processed 3931 editing requests in 2017-2018, which was a marked increase compared with prior to its establishment (P = 0.0097). The authors were generally satisfied with the quality of editing services from both in-house and external editors. Upon conducting regular quality control, overall author satisfaction with one external company gradually increased over the course of one year (P for trend = 0.086). Author satisfaction survey results revealed that overall satisfaction of editing service was most strongly correlated with how well the edits conformed to the authors' intentions (R = 0.796), and was only weakly correlated with quick turnaround time (R = 0.355). We also observed a significant increase in the trend of the number of research publications (P = 0.0007) at one year after the establishment of the SPT.

Conclusion

Providing a combination of in-house and external editing services resulted in high author satisfaction and subsequent hospital-wide increases in manuscript writing and publication. Our model system may be adapted in academic hospitals to better address the editing needs of non-native English-speaking researchers.

SUBMITTER: Lim JS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6615627 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Lim Joon Seo JS Topping Vanessa V Lee Ji Sung JS Bailey Keenan D KD Kim Sung-Han SH Kim Tae Won TW

PloS one 20190709 7

<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>We established the Scientific Publications Team (SPT), an in-house editing team in Asan Medical Cente ...[more]

PMID: 31287850

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

Background

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

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