How to write and publish articles in plant breeding: What do we need to know?

Abstract

Social, economic, and cultural globalization and the consumer society have enabled science to definitively participate in people's daily lives. Human knowledge has advanced at an extraordinary rate; science has become present and imperative; and never has more been expected from scientific advances than now. Here I addressed answers to the following questions: What is the importance of science? How can science be correctly communicated? What can we learn from comparing articles from Mendel and from Watson & Crick? How is a scientific paper to be written? How are target journals for publishing articles to be chosen? What is the impact factor of a journal and the h-index of a researcher, and what importance do they have? What is the role of authors, editors, and reviewers in the publication process? What are the main scientific databases? What are predatory journals/publishers and their consequences for science? What are particular features of articles in the area of plant breeding? Finally, in what directions is science moving, considering that it has come to stay?

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“…scientific article every year, which requires creativity to propose new solutions and innovative strategies. 12 According to a recent study, the main reasons for manuscript rejection by scientific journals in agriculture and plant biology were the lack of novelty, flaws in methods or data interpretation, inadequate data analysis, and poor critical scientific thinking. 17 Therefore, a vital task for a medical writer is to clearly emphasise the novelty in the research and transparently put the complexity of in vitro secondary metabolite production on paper.…”