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SciManuscript congratulates David Ginty (@HarvardMed) & Patrik Ernfors (@karolinskainst) for winning the 2026 Brain Prize! ๐ง ๐
Their work on the somatosensory system (touch, pain, temp & proprioception) has rewritten neuroscience textbooks. ๐งฌ
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What really happens after you hit โsubmitโ? In โThe Other Side of the Desk,โ a handling editor pulls back the curtain on peer review for SciManuscript: from how reviewers are selected to how conflicting feedback is resolved and final decisions are made: https://t.co/LFadVybXhj
This weekโs post is a reflective piece. It focuses on the issue of choosing the right target journal for your research and the emotional impact that rejection can have on PhD students and early career researchers.
Post-WWII: ๐งฌ As Randomized Clinical Trials exploded, JAMA pivoted. It shifted from advocacy to rigorous statistics and blinded peer review, securing its place as a "Big 4" journal alongside NEJM, The Lancet, and The BMJ (3/3).
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๐๏ธ In 1883, US medicine was chaos. "Diploma mills" sold degrees, and standards were non-existent. Nathan Davis founded JAMA to fix this. His mission wasn't just scientific; it was structural. JAMA gave a fragmented profession a shared language and identity for the first time. 1/3
The Watchdog Era โ๏ธ Early JAMA declared war on patent medicines. Under editor Morris Fishbein (1924โ49), it ruthlessly exposed frauds like "goat-gland" surgeon John Brinkley. Fishbeinโs "naming and shaming" invited lawsuits, but it laid the groundwork for the FDA (2/3).
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In 1840, the predecessor to The BMJ was born. From a 16-page weekly to a global medical pillar. ๐๏ธ 1/3
The Evolution: ๐น1840: Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal ๐น1857: British Medical Journal ๐น1995: First major journal to launch a website
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2/3 Scientific Milestones:
1847: First reports on Chloroform (Anaesthesia) 1867: Listerโs Antiseptic Principle 1948: First centralized RCT (Streptomycin): the modern gold standard 1950s: Doll & Hill prove the link between smoking & lung cancer
History shows language should never be a barrier to science.
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Let's get your research published and read by people worldover (4/4).
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How did Japan evolve from a closed country to a global powerhouse in medical research?
The journey began not with a pipette, but with a translation ๐๏ธ ๐งต (1/4).
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By the late 19th century, Japan moved from absorbing knowledge to creating it.
This era gave rise to titans like Kitasato Shibasaburล, whose discovery of the plague bacillus changed global medicine forever (3/4).
One challenged the system from the outside; the other unified the profession from within.
Which legacy do you believe has had a more profound impact on the trajectory of modern medicine: radical transparency or institutional stability?
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๐๏ธ The 1820s. Two continents. Two journals. Two philosophies.
Both are still publishing, but they emerged from fundamentally different origins: one as an agent of disruption, the other as a pillar of consolidation.
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๐บ๐ธ 1828: Across the Atlantic, the United States took a different path.
The moment of the 1828 merger was about establishing coherence. The journal (later @NEJM) emphasized cautious empiricism and professional consensus to build institutional trust in a fragmented landscape. ๐ค