Open AccessThe Art of the Editorial
Author(s) -
Edwin van Teijlingen,
Vanora Hundley,
Brijesh Sathian,
Padam Simkhada,
Jared Robinson,
Indrajit Banerjee
Publication year - 2022
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2091-0800
DOI - 10.3126/nje.v12i1.43104
Subject(s) - medicine , publishing , covid-19 , scientific publishing , alternative medicine , public relations , pathology , law , disease , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Many traditional scientific journals carry an editorial at the start of each issue or perhaps in most issues. The more recently established online journals seemed to have discontinued this tradition, for example there is no editorial in Sociological Research Online or many of the online journals in the BMC stable, such as BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth or BMC Public Health.
Over the past two decades we have published close to fifty editorials between us. We would like to highlight some of their specific features to offer advice and encouragement to would-be editorial writers, and, more generally, promote the writing and publishing of editorials. This paper includes an overview of the eight most recent editorials, all focusing on the hot topic of COVID-19, published in this scientific journal.