Academic Publishing

Publication disseminates information to relevant stakeholders through a journal article (manuscript). Therefore, learning about the process of academic publishing, also called scholarly or scientific publishing, is critical for communicating knowledge to peer reviewers who will evaluate the work's credibility and to end users.

The Academic Publishing course delivers approximately seven hours of instruction, taking the learner from defining important concepts to postpublication issues. This includes novel basic science findings, clinical or translational research manuscripts, review articles, case reports, medical education articles that describe teaching methodology and outcomes, published quality improvement projects, or any other scholarly activity worthy of dissemination.

Intended audience

As researchers, academicians, clinician-researchers, medical educators or faculty in a higher education institution, we are expected to publish the results of our research or scholarly activities. This course's target audience is people who desire to publish an article in an academic or scientific journal.

Curriculum

Course director

M. Hassan Murad, M.D.

Course outcomes

  • Define key concepts that are critical for academic publishing, including conflict of interest, spin, publication bias, plagiarism and principles of academic authorship.
  • Identify strategies that can be used to craft a narrative describing research findings, including clarity, coherence, conciseness and actionable writing.
  • List best practices for developing the various components of a publishable manuscript.
  • Differentiate steps and processes required to successfully navigate manuscript submission, peer review and postpublication activities.

Course outline

This course is delivered in three units:

  1. Introduction to Academic Publishing
    • Introduction and Definitions
    • Publication Bias and the Extreme Opposite
    • Artificial Intelligence Use in Academic Publishing
    • Authorship and Conflicts of Interest
  2. Academic Writing
    • Rational Tone and Cohesion
    • Emphasis and Choice Words
    • Crafting the Message
    • Writing a Manuscript
    • Reporting Guidelines and Quality Tools
  3. Academic Journals
    • Working With Academic Journals
    • From Peer Review to Publication
    • Postpublication Issues

Registration

Visit the Academic Publishing Executive Education page to register for this course.

Mayo Clinic employees can visit our intranet site to find out about internal pricing. Users must be logged in to the Mayo Clinic network to access this intranet site.

Contact

Direct questions to the CCaTS Workforce Development team.