Have you ever wondered what has been the reason behind human being’s rapid speed of progress compared to other organisms in the world? One important factor contributing to our winning the race of evolution is active communication between individuals to thrive the society as a whole. Scientific research, no doubt, is the one of mail pillars of human society. No matter who is doing the scientific research and what is his ethnic and cultural background, it pursues one common goal and that is the betterment of the world. Sharing researches with one another is becoming easier every day, yet, effective communication depends on facts being shared in a concise and understandable way.
No researcher work in isolation today, because it is only through interaction with others that a problem can be tackled effectively. Additionally, the findings have to be communicated to the right people who will use their ideas for the improvement of human community. However, it sometimes happens that people cannot communicate effectively for different reasons such as language barrier or the absence of a proper platform. Although scientific journals are proper platforms for sharing researches, they often select the researches that benefit human society profoundly. To do so they monitor the quality of both science and language that these papers present. Lack of language knowledge should not prevent researchers from presenting their quality works.
Ask a scientific editor for help! A scientific editor is a person possessing both language and subject-matter expertise. Therefore, he/she is a mediator between scientists having technical expertise and the journals intending to introduce quality researches to the world.
Sometimes it is difficult to understand what the article intends to say or why there are some gaps in the research paper that the writer has neglected them. A scientific editor is one whose job is to make the paper they are working on free of such problems.
The role of scientific editor
The role of scientific editing is multifaceted. Scientific editing improves both the language and quality of science presented. They should make sure that the reader is able to extract all the embedded information in the paper without difficulty. Therefore, they edit the paper in a way that makes its language clear, straightforward and concise. In fact, their job is not to make changes in the content of the article but rather express the author’s views clearly and faithfully. Scientific editor, unlike a normal editor, analyzes a study presented in a manuscript the same way a journal reviewer does and offers his suggestions for the improvement of the study to render it more impactful. Hence, a scientific editor works not only on the content of the manuscript but on the way it should be presented as well. This leads to the consistent presentation of facts in an appealing way.
Since most scientific editors have been researchers once, that is one of the reasons they care about the publication of other people’s works, because they feel they are participating in a common goal that they are part of.