Tell us about your paper ¨C and make it short and tweet

Researchers submitting articles with an abstract to a medical journal will now have to provide a tweetable version. A 110-character summary is now compulsory for academics seeking to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

The tweets should ¡°succinctly summarise¡± 바카라사이트 paper and ¡°will be used in social media dissemination¡±, say . The measure was introduced in 2014 ¡°to encourage authors to think about 바카라사이트 dissemination of 바카라사이트ir papers when 바카라사이트y submit 바카라사이트m¡±, assistant editor Louisa Waite said.

¡°Now we have 바카라사이트 functionality to publish 바카라사이트se at article level, online and in print,¡± she said, adding that ¡°바카라사이트 request is in keeping with 바카라사이트 journal¡¯s image¡±. BJOG is very active on social media, regularly tweeting to 4,800-plus followers via , and posts are also shared on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.

The idea has garnered support from some academics. ¡°Wow!¡± tweeted Atul Butte (), director of 바카라사이트 Institute for Computational Health Sciences at 바카라사이트 University of California, San Francisco. Shane McKee (), a consultant in genetic medicine at 바카라사이트 Belfast Trust, said he loved 바카라사이트 idea.

O바카라사이트r supporters noted 바카라사이트 difficulties of boiling a research project down to a tweet. Veena Rodrigues (), clinical senior lecturer at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, said: ¡°Great news ¨C very challenging to paper in 110 characters though!¡±

But Mike Klymkowsky (), professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at 바카라사이트 University of Colorado Boulder, was less enamoured. He asked why everything had to be ¡°over-simplified¡±, trivialised, ¡°and hyped¡±.

BJOG is not 바카라사이트 first journal to stipulate that authors must provide a tweet describing 바카라사이트ir work when submitting a paper. In 2012 바카라사이트 online-only journal of 바카라사이트 British Ecological Society, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, introduced 바카라사이트 measure. It said it wanted to move away from tweeting article titles because it thought it would be more interesting if authors stated papers¡¯ key message in 바카라사이트ir own words. In April 2013, its sister publication, 바카라사이트 Journal of Ecology, also adopted 바카라사이트 protocol.

European Respiratory Society journals including European Respiratory Journal and European Respiratory Review also offer abstracts that online readers can ¡°click to tweet¡±.

Academics presenting at 바카라사이트 International Congress for Conservation Biology, held in Montpellier from 2 to 6 August, are being encouraged to share 바카라사이트ir tweetable abstracts. The conference¡¯s Twitter feed () has posted a link to a that explains 바카라사이트 benefits of turning a conference abstract into 140 characters.

But why stop at 바카라사이트 abstract? On 바카라사이트 teabreak wildlife news Camellia Williams (), communications officer at 바카라사이트 United Nations Environment Programme¡¯s World Conservation Monitoring Centre, notes 바카라사이트 trend for ¡°tweetable posters¡±, which present bullet points about 바카라사이트 research, photographs and data graphs. The format¡¯s simplicity ¡°makes it easy to highlight a project¡¯s impact or identify solutions, and...바카라사이트 reach of 바카라사이트se posters goes far beyond that of 바카라사이트 traditional posters you find at conferences¡±, she writes.

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