Patient engagement with the BJD: encouraging the patient voice and readership

Hughes, Olivia; Prescott, Laura; Arents, B.W.M.

doi:10.1111/bjd.21812

British Journal of Dermatology

2022

DOI: 10.1111/bjd.21812

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Patient engagement with the BJD: encouraging the patient voice and readership

Olivia Hughes

Laura Prescott

B.W.M. Arents³

Abstract: This editorial for the British Journal of Dermatology provides an update from a patient editor point of view.

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“…The BJD's mission statement 'to publish the highest-quality dermatology research to improve patient care' 7 continues to drive what we do as a journal, including an increasing influence from patients themselves in our editorial team and via the articles we publish. 8 Returning to the copyright issue highlighted at the start of my editorial, I am delighted to confirm that under the terms of our new publishing agreement with OUP, authors of all BJD papers, whether published as open access or not, will retain copyright of their article.…”

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A watershed moment for the BJD: Authors retain their article copyright 'I don't own one word of this. Even though I spent hours writing it and was not paid. If you don't believe me, look at the copyright statement at the bottom of this page.' 1 So wrote Professor Andrew Finlay in a BJD Editorial on copyright in 2015. At the time he was entirely right that, except for articles published as open access, authors publishing their work in most medical journals assigned copyright to the journal's owner. While in most cases there are few practical consequences, this copyright transfer can make a big difference, an example being papers which describe a novel outcome measure instrument subsequently used in multiple commercial clinical trials where a fee for use is charged. Is every medical publisher the same on this issue? All will be revealed later…! From 1 st January 2023, following a competitive bid process, The British Association of Dermatologists changed its publisher for BJD and our companion journal, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, from Wiley to Oxford University Press (OUP). Watershed moments like this provide an opportunity to reflect on progress and look ahead to future journal enhancements. The COVID pandemic has certainly allowed dermatology publishing to have greater impact on medicine and society as a whole than it had previously. The BJD was fortunate to publish several high-quality COVID submissions, including papers covering classification of rashes from COVID infection, 2 efforts to visualize SARS-CoV-2 proteins in the endothelial cells of acral chilblains, 3 and skin reaction patterns from COVID vaccination. 4 The COVID Symptom Study app paper in the

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Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals

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In recent decades, members of the general public have become increasingly reliant on findings of scientific studies for decision-making. However, scientific writing usually features a heavy use of technical language, which may pose challenges for people outside of the scientific community. To alleviate this issue, plain language summaries were introduced to provide a brief summary of scientific papers in clear and accessible language. Despite increasing attention paid to the research of plain language summaries, little is known about whether these summaries are readable for the intended audiences. Based on a large corpus sampled from six biomedical and life sciences journals, the present study examined the readability and jargon use of plain language summaries and scientific abstracts on a technical level. It was found that (1) plain language summaries were more readable than scientific abstracts, (2) the reading grade levels of plain language summaries were moderately correlated with that of scientific abstracts, (3) researchers used less jargon in plain language summaries than in scientific abstracts, and (4) the readability of and the jargon use in both plain language summaries and scientific abstracts exceeded the recommended threshold for the general public. The findings were discussed with possible explanations. Implications for academic writing and scientific communication were offered.

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Patient engagement with the BJD: encouraging the patient voice and readership

Abstract: This editorial for the British Journal of Dermatology provides an update from a patient editor point of view.

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References 4 publications

A watershed moment for the BJD: Authors retain their article copyright

A watershed moment for the BJD: Authors retain their article copyright

Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals

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