Copy Editing and Journal Quality

Is there any concept of copy editing between the journals among WAME on a paid basis? I suggest if it is introduced it will add in quality of the journal.

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Clearly there has to be some copy editing done (unless your authors are much more meticulous than ours!). Our publishers employ someone to do this, but they are not medical, and so can only make fairly minor changes of style and spelling, etc. Our reviewers do a certain amount, and then I do the final proofing of all papers, and often find myself correcting typos,etc, that have slipped through.

In the case of papers by non English-speaking authors, we sometimes find ourselves doing a lot of re-writing, but only if we think the paper is really good!

Bob Bury
Clinical Radiology
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We have a professional journalist to copy edit every single word that will be published. She has been working with us for more than 20 years, and she has became very knowledgeable in medical terms. Anyway, one of the medical editors has to proof read everything after the journalist to make sure that everything is OK. The publisher does a final review.

We might be a little compulsive about copy editing, but I feel terribly bad whenever I review something and I find a typo immortalized. Keep in mind that I am talking about Cuba, and labor cost is not an issue.

Rodolfo Soca
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We use a "editor de estilo" who corrects Spanish and English papers in a very strict way, and he is well received by authors. We pay him US$300 per issue.

Guillermo Llanos
Editor, COLOMBIA MEDICA