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ArticleMarine life science & technology2022

Finding your scientific story by writing backwards.

David J S Montagnes, E Ian Montagnes, Zhou Yang

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Article in Marine life science & technology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. How to write a scientific paper in fifteen steps.PLoS computational biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

David J S MontagnesDepartment of Evolution, Ecology, and Behaviour, University of Liverpool, BioSciences Building, Liverpool, L69 7ZB UK.
E Ian MontagnesPrivate Office, 31 Baldwin Street, Port Hope, ON L1A 1S3 Canada.
Zhou YangSchool of Biological Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023 China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To succeed, a scientist must write well. Substantial guidance exists on writing papers that follow the classic Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (IMRaD) structure. Here, we fill a critical gap in this pedagogical canon. We offer guidance on developing a good scientific story

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Scientific narrativeScientific pedagogyScientific writingStory-tellingWriting structure

Identifiers

PMID37073362
PMCPMC10077155

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Registered trials

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