Department of Parasitology, Victor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timişoara, Romania.
Account Res. 2011 Jul-Aug;18(4):247-9. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2011.584761.
Letters-to-the-editor represent an important characteristic of scientific interchange especially because the initial peer-review may not fulfill the qualitative control of a manuscript. On the other hand, it is well known that such publications are accepted easier than regular ones and may be a gateway for authors without outstanding scientific merits to input their names in high impact factor journals. A letter-to-the-editor (intended as a commentary to one of our works) allowed us to discover a very peculiar and unexpected fact for the medical literature, worthy to be shared with the worldwide scientific community.
信件是科学交流的一个重要特征，特别是因为最初的同行评审可能无法满足稿件的质量控制。另一方面，众所周知，这种出版物比常规出版物更容易被接受，并且对于没有杰出科学成就的作者来说，可能是在高影响因子期刊上发表自己名字的途径。一封给编辑的信（旨在评论我们的一篇作品）让我们发现了一个对医学文献来说非常特别和意外的事实，值得与全球科学界分享。
