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ArticlemBio2024

Why should early-career scientists publish in society journals.

Stephen K Dolan, Lori D Banks, Wenqi Yu

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Article in mBio, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Trials and Aspirations of an Early Career Researcher Advisory Board.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
    Article
  2. Review
  3. ThemBio · 2024
    Article
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.

Stephen K DolanDepartment of Genetics and Biochemistry, Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7391-2137
Lori D BanksDepartment of Biology, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas, USA.
Wenqi YuDepartment of Molecular Bioscience, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8772-3129

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this editorial, written by early-career scientists, we advocate for the invaluable role of society journals in our scientific community. By choosing to support these journals as authors, peer reviewers, and as editors, we can reinforce our academic growth and benefit from their re-investment back into the scientific ecosystem. Considering the numerous clear merits of this system for future generations of microbiologists and more broadly, society, we argue that early-career researchers should publish our high-quality research in society journals to shape the future of science and scientific publishing landscape.

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Identifiers

PMID38088905
PMCPMC10790747

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Registered trials

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