Year: 2016
Type: editorial
Abstract: Each researcher has their strengths and weaknesses.The latter can be improved with education, experience and team working.Nonetheless almost every article will have stronger and weaker parts.Many articles submitted to this Journal would benefit from greater statistical input.For the last 12 years, Stefan Sauerland has provided exemplary statistical reviews when requested.We have appointed a team of three statisticians to replace Stefan: Dr Felix Freshwater, a Plastic and Hand Surgeon in Miami who is also an Editorial Board member; Mr Paul Cool, an Oncological Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt hospital; and Mr Martyn Hall, a statistician working in industry.Their expertise is summarized on the Journal website.They have agreed to provide a comprehensive statistical service so that we can continue to improve the quality of the articles we publish.Every article with data that would benefit from statistical analysis and which may be accepted for publication, will be sent to one of the statistical team for review.This is intended to be both a proportionate service, i.e. requiring statistical analysis commensurate with the data (this is not a journal of statistics) and an assistance to authors.As always we welcome feedback in response to these changes.The Journal is an evolving organization.We have appointed new members to the Editorial Board for 2016 and increased the number of members to reflect the rising workload of increasing submissions.We are soon to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief to start in 2017 and we need a new Editor to join the team, also starting in 2017.We encourage all readers with previous reviewing experience to consider this interesting and stimulating role.If you are
Author: Grey Giddins
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4234219015