Scientific Publications Team, Clinical Research Center, Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
PLoS One. 2019 Jul 9;14(7):e0219567. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219567. eCollection 2019.
English editing services are effective for improving manuscript quality as well as providing learning opportunities for non-native English-speaking authors. Herein, we describe the effects of a combined system of in-house and external editing services for handling large volumes of editing requests and providing personalized editing service in academic hospitals.
We established the Scientific Publications Team (SPT), an in-house editing team in Asan Medical Center in Seoul, Korea. The SPT is composed of two professional editors who manage editing requests sent to external companies while also providing one-on-one in-house editing services. We gathered author satisfaction data from 936 surveys between July 2017 and December 2018 and analyzed the number of editing requests and research publications by segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series data.
The SPT processed 3931 editing requests in 2017-2018, which was a marked increase compared with prior to its establishment (P = 0.0097). The authors were generally satisfied with the quality of editing services from both in-house and external editors. Upon conducting regular quality control, overall author satisfaction with one external company gradually increased over the course of one year (P for trend = 0.086). Author satisfaction survey results revealed that overall satisfaction of editing service was most strongly correlated with how well the edits conformed to the authors' intentions (R = 0.796), and was only weakly correlated with quick turnaround time (R = 0.355). We also observed a significant increase in the trend of the number of research publications (P = 0.0007) at one year after the establishment of the SPT.
Providing a combination of in-house and external editing services resulted in high author satisfaction and subsequent hospital-wide increases in manuscript writing and publication. Our model system may be adapted in academic hospitals to better address the editing needs of non-native English-speaking researchers.
英文编辑服务可有效提高稿件质量，并为非英语母语作者提供学习机会。在此，我们描述了内部和外部编辑服务相结合的系统在处理大量编辑请求和为学术医院提供个性化编辑服务方面的效果。
我们在韩国首尔的峨山医学中心成立了科学出版物团队（SPT），这是一个内部编辑团队。SPT 由两名专业编辑组成，他们管理发送给外部公司的编辑请求，同时还提供一对一的内部编辑服务。我们从 2017 年 7 月至 2018 年 12 月的 936 项调查中收集了作者满意度数据，并通过中断时间序列数据分析对编辑请求和研究出版物数量进行分段回归分析。
SPT 在 2017-2018 年处理了 3931 项编辑请求，与成立前相比明显增加（P = 0.0097）。作者普遍对内部和外部编辑的编辑服务质量感到满意。通过定期进行质量控制，一家外部公司的整体作者满意度在一年的过程中逐渐提高（趋势 P = 0.086）。作者满意度调查结果表明，编辑服务的整体满意度与编辑与作者意图的契合程度密切相关（R = 0.796），而与周转时间的相关性较弱（R = 0.355）。我们还观察到，在 SPT 成立一年后，研究出版物数量的趋势显著增加（P = 0.0007）。
提供内部和外部编辑服务相结合的服务可提高作者满意度，并随后在全院范围内增加稿件撰写和发表。我们的模型系统可适用于学术医院，以更好地满足非英语母语研究人员的编辑需求。
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