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Writing a paper does not take much time, but writing a paper that a scientific journal Editor will offer to publish does require a substantial amount of time. A paper that is written quickly and carelessly will simply be rejected from the journals. So the first step for writing up a good scientific journal paper is to plan when and how you are going to dedicate the necessary time from your life to do all the work involved in writing a publishable paper. Several scientific studies have reported that “lack of time” is the leading explanation that researchers give for why they have not published their work as journal papers [1–3]. So if you cannot find the time to do the writing, then your paper will also never get written and published, regardless of whatever else this book or anyone else teaches you about writing a journal paper. Time is the fundamental prerequisite for writing. And taking more time is the essential prerequisite for writing a better paper that will be published in a better journal.
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Hanna, M. (2019). Time. In: How to Write Better Medical Papers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02955-5_5
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