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Desk rejection evidence for industry-sponsored manuscripts: 69.8% of rejections were desk rejections, median 3 days

Why Industry-Sponsored Manuscripts Get Desk-Rejected: An Editor’s Checklist

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An industry-sponsored manuscript can be scientifically sound and still come back within days with a desk rejection: no reviewers, no comments, a two-line letter. For pharma, biotech and medtech publication teams that outcome costs more than time. It pushes back the publication plan, delays the move from congress data to a citable paper and, when

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EU CTR lay summary deadlines: 6 months paediatric, 12 months under Article 37(4), 30-month public release for Category 1

EU CTR Lay Summaries: What Sponsors Must Publish, and When

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Every interventional trial run under the Clinical Trials Regulation ends with two results documents, not one. Alongside the technical summary of results, the sponsor must publish an EU CTR lay summary: a plain-language account of what the trial found, written for the people who took part and for the public. It goes into the EU

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How to Publish a Sponsored Medical Education Book: ISBN, DOI, Disclosure and Timeline

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A book is one of the most durable things a medical education budget can pay for. A well-edited clinical handbook or society textbook stays on wards and in libraries for years. But a sponsored medical book only works if readers trust it, and that trust is decided long before the first chapter is written: by

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Symposium proceedings DOI illustration: symposium slides becoming a published paper with a registered DOI

Satellite Symposium Proceedings With a DOI: Turning a Symposium Into a Citable Record

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A satellite symposium can draw a full room and still leave no trace a reader can cite six months later. The slides sit on a sponsor drive, the recording expires on the congress platform, and the faculty’s best clinical insight is never referenced again. A symposium proceedings DOI changes that. When each paper from the

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Desk Rejection Criteria: What to Screen, in What Order, and What to Leave to Reviewers

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Good desk rejection criteria do two jobs at once: they stop the wrong papers reaching your reviewers, and they stop the right papers being held up by checks that belong later in the process. Most journals get the first half roughly right and the second half wrong, which is why screening feels slow and reviewers

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How to Desk Reject a Manuscript Without Inviting an Appeal

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Learning how to desk reject a manuscript is not really about deciding. Most editors know within ten minutes which papers should not go to review. The difficulty is everything that comes afterwards: the letter, the appeal, the email chain that runs for three weeks, and the uncomfortable feeling that the decision was a judgement you

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