Scientific articles revision as essential procedure to achieve quality in the scientific communication

Abstract

Revising the scientific articles is important for the scientific communication, generally developed by professionals with expertise in the treated theme. The purpose of this study was actualizing aspects related with the application of scientific communication guidelines or tools for the development of the role of arbiter or reviser of works for the biomedical journals. We carried out a bibliographic review in Infomed (Scielo, MEDLINE, LILACS, Hinari, Pubmed, Pubmed Central y Biblioteca Virtual de Salud). We used the key words: reviser, arbiter, arbitrage, scientific journal, scientific publications, guidelines, tools, scientific communication, the Boolean operators “and” y “or”. 70 % of the selected articles corresponded to the last five years, and 75 % of them to the last 3 years. As bibliographic manager we used EndNote tool. Several guidelines and tools have been developed to raise the quality of the scientific communication in health, like CONSORT, STROBE, TREND declaration and others. The initiative EQUATOR gives access to many important resources for revising scientific articles, creating a space for the interchange, growth and development at the world level in this sense. Revisers should study and spread the guidelines currently developed to increase the quality of each of the research designs. The editors’ and revisers’ role is important for ethical preserving medical written work; the quality of the scientific journal where they work depends on their professional performance.