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Five Modes of Sudden Death
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Heinemann, Markus K. |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | You may know from the “House of God”[1] that cardiac patients simply die. So do manuscripts. As I am currently preparing a presentation for the annual meeting of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) bearing the same title as this editorial I thought it suitable to let you know some of the content. In order not to become suspected of double publication (see below), I won't go into the details and numbers of the analysis, but simply share some of the causes for acquiring a dreadful professional disease known as Editor's Chagrin. A bit more than 20%, i.e., a good fifth of the manuscripts submitted to this journal never see a reviewer, because the Editor-in-Chief rejects them offhand. Officially this decision mode is known as “Reject without review” and is used by all reasonable journals. Internally we call it “Sudden Death.” Cardiothoracic surgeons are disproportionately familiar with this form of demise, but still often wonder what really caused it. To shed light on this question we performed a consecutive autopsy series including all sudden deaths seen since January 2014. Five modes could be identified and are listed below in order of frequency. It is an Editor's obligation to guide and teach authors, even and maybe especially the unsuccessful ones. Our death certificate invariably contains a detailed autopsy report and usually some recommendations for avoidance in the future. Things take a particularly nasty turn when the Rising Dead return to the scene, which has been repeatedly illustrated by respective movies. In editors this phenomenon invariably leads to a severe outbreak of the Chagrin mentioned above. In such cases some cynicism should be excusable. “It is difficult to understand that you submitted this paper to our journal again, virtually unchanged. Alzheimer's disease has so far not been diagnosed among the members of the Editorial Board. But thank you for double-checking. Yours sincerely…” |
| Related Links | http://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/s-0038-1654704.pdf |
| Ending Page | 277 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| Starting Page | 277 |
| ISSN | 01716425 |
| e-ISSN | 14391902 |
| DOI | 10.1055/s-0038-1654704 |
| Journal | The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon |
| Issue Number | 04 |
| Volume Number | 66 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
| Publisher Date | 2018-06-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Surgery Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine |
