Published a review article?? Plz Help!!

[SuperFly123]

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Hey,
I was suggested by a professor to write a review article on a topic I'm pretty interested in. Problem is, I have no idea how to go about this. Anyone here ever write a review before? If so, please PM me - I have a few questions so I can make this a reality. Also, does anyone know any student-friendly professional journals?

Thanks!

 

[SkylineMD]

writing a review article is not exactly the easiest of things to do. You first need to research a lot of information on the topic. If it isn't something that you have been working on for a while, this can be quite tedious since you need to cite every single source (for review articles, this list can be huge). You also need to be able to write things in a scientific manner. Lastly, getting published is much easier if there is an MD or PhD after your name. Why don't you just read a general review article and then get some ideas from that?

 

[Brainsucker]

Pick a relatively obscure but simple topic. Hopefully, there won't be a huge number of relevant papers to shift through and you'll be able to see the forest for the trees. It's ambitious, but by the time you have something publishable, you'll at least know the literature on the topic really well.

 

[knitwitty]

I wrote a review last summer. I just approached it as a term paper... introduction, middle, conclusion. (Of course in a review, the middle section is rather long...).

I found it helpful to break my main topic into smaller topics, and write a little section on each. For example, if you were writing on a protein, have a different section for structure, function, pathway, history (who discovered it? how? when?), human diseases linked to the protein, etc.