Ten simple rules for writing scientific op-ed articles
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Science communication and outreach committees often write science pieces for broad audiences or for fellow scientists.
“Such committees often write science pieces for broad audiences [14] or for fellow scientists, e.g., through outreach activities on broader public platforms such as Massive Science, ecrLife, Science Trends, The Conversation, Discover Magazine, WIRED Science, etc.”
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The Introduction describes scientific op-eds as intended for a wide audience, and Rule 6 advises scientists to write for the general public. Those passages support the broad-audience part attached to the citation, but they do not establish that science communication and outreach committees often write such pieces. The citation is not attached to the later clause about fellow scientists. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Goh, H.-H., & Bourne, P.
- Affiliations
- National University of Malaysia (MY)
- University of Virginia (US)
- Corresponding author
- Goh, Hoe-Han
- Bourne, Philip
- Venue
- PLOS Computational Biology
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2020-09-17
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- e1008187
- ISSN
- 1553-734X (ISSN-L)
- 1553-7358
- PMC
- PMC7498099
- OpenAlex
- W3087693716
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 3.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- PLoS Computational Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- opinion articles, scientific writing, science communication, editorial guidelines, writing style
- MeSH terms
- Attitude, Humans, Persuasive Communication, Science, Time Factors, Writing, Editorial Policies
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