Time

Topic

Speaker

Shanghai

Beijing

0700-0830

Registration open

0830-0840

Opening remarks

Chair

TBC

Chair

TBC

0840-0910

Keynote speech:

How the Lancet works and insights into peer review

• Peer review (AOS )-insights into what editors and reviewers find good and bad
• Publication ethics

Dr Stuart Spencer 

Executive Editor, The Lancet 

0910-0920

Q&A

0920-0950

Speech:

Insights on increasing the opportunity of being published: from a peer reviewer perspective

• What are my evaluation criteria
• How do I make valuable critiques
• How do I indicate ways to improve manuscript
• How do I communicate with journal editor

Chunxue Bai

MD,Zhongshan hospital, China

Dongming Li

MD, Peking University Third Hospital, China

0950-1000

Q&A

1000-1030

Tea Break

1030-1130

Speech: Key factors that contribute to write an outstanding manuscript

• Making your writing style more readable
• Important aspects of each section of a paper
• Meeting your readers’ expectations

Dr Stuart Spencer

Executive Editor, The Lancet

1130-1200

Q&A and Panel discussion

All faculty

1200-1330

Lunch

1330-1340

Opening remarks

1340-1410

Case study 1: Key characteristics of an outstanding article

• Novelty
• Generalizable
• High quality methods
• Data analysis

 (TBC)

1410-1440

Case study 2: Top five misuses in submitted manuscripts that lead to rejection

• Top five misuses in authors
• Common reasons for which papers are rejected

1440-1500

Q&A

1500-1530

Tea break

1530-1600

Case Study 3 – experience sharing from a successful Chinese author

• Map out outline
• Statistics
• writing title, abstract and discussion
• Table/figure
• Write manuscript in English directly

Jian Wang, MD

Renji Hospital, China

Yining Huang,

MD, Peking University First Hospital, China

1600-1630

Q&A and Panel discussion

 All faculty

1630-1640

Closing