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Rachel Box, MS, ELS, joins the Faculty Factory Podcast today to discuss the benefits of utilizing specialized, technical editors in scholarly publishing.
Rachel Box is the Director of Editorial Services and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore. She is a board certified editor in the life sciences.
“Our average rate of first-time acceptance—meaning the author’s top choice journal, no rejection—is more than 50 percent,” she said. “That represents an enormous saving of time and effort that our faculty can then put into their clinical service.”
After listening to today’s podcast episode with Rachel, it is crystal clear that there is enormous value in taking the time to work with a scholarly editor before submitting a paper.
Rachel’s team looks at the paper from a “language perspective” that not only helps the paper get accepted at a higher rate, but it also makes the paper more accessible to a larger audience.
It’s important to note that Rachel and her team are not ghostwriters, and they really do not do much writing (outside of revisions). They try to anticipate the questions the reviewers will have, and then work with the writer to address those issues before it is submitted to a journal.
“We don’t do the science and we don’t write the papers, but we certainly can assist that effort and make you more successful,” she said. “That’s our passion, that’s what we’re trained to do and that’s what we love to do.”
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