Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
mBio. 2024 Oct 16;15(10):e0250624. doi: 10.1128/mbio.02506-24. Epub 2024 Sep 20.
Microbiologists, like scientists in any other biomedical field, are too engrossed in writing research papers. Aided by both expanding research programs and shrinking resources, this will continue for the foreseeable time. In this editorial, I discuss a compelling need for all microbiologists to dedicate some time to writing non-research publications such as minireviews, perspectives, commentary, opinion/hypothesis, and other non-research article types. I also list the benefits to the field, of review articles and how they can have the potential to change the field. I have provided a handful of classic examples of reviews that clearly changed the field in a remarkable way as well as a number of reviews that clarified the field and facilitated future research.
微生物学家和其他任何生物医学领域的科学家一样，都过于专注于撰写研究论文。在不断扩大的研究计划和不断减少的资源的帮助下，这种情况在可预见的未来还将继续。在这篇社论中，我讨论了所有微生物学家都迫切需要投入一些时间来撰写非研究性出版物的必要性，如小综述、观点、评论、意见/假设和其他非研究文章类型。我还列出了综述文章对该领域的好处，以及它们如何有可能改变该领域。我提供了一些经典的综述例子，这些综述以显著的方式改变了该领域，还有一些综述澄清了该领域并为未来的研究提供了便利。
