Author Michaela Panter, PhD

How can you avoid plagiarism and increase your manuscript's likelihood of publication, especially in journals using plagiarism detection tools?

Some terminology and phrasing are essentially exclusive to case reports, although they may even be deemed incorrect or awkward in other contexts. Here are some examples.

Clarifying the difference between 'case' and 'patient' in medical or clinical research

Here, we discuss small stylistic and formatting touches that may help to increase the clarity of clinical case reports.

This article covers commonly confused terms in clinical medicine manuscripts and case reports.

Here, we outline two categories of diction- and phrasing-related errors in clinical reports: commonly confused terms and frequently misused terms.

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), has established four criteria that each author of a paper should meet. This article and our free white paper, Credit Where Credit Is Due, detail and explore these criteria.

Plagiarism is a form of academic misconduct and can thus lead to dismissal from universities and other research institutions, article rejections or retractions from journals, and decreased credibility as a researcher. How do you know if you're plagiarizing?

This article discusses how to avoid sentence fragments, which may confuse readers and be considered problematic by journal editors.