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USEFUL LINKS

http://www.worldscinet.com/subject.shtml

http://www.scientificjournals.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor

  

VOCABULARY AND METHODOLOGY

Facteur d'impact | Impact factor

revue prestigieuse	high-profile journal
facteur d'impact bas /élevé	low / high impact factor
article de toute première qualité	first-rate article
article de piètre qualité	poor-quality article
nombre de citations	number of citations [Science Citation Index (SCI)]
évaluation / revue par les pairs	peer reviewing / refereeing
un référé / un reviewer	a reviewer
un expert	a referee
une revue à comité de lecture	a peer-reviewed / refereed journal
un comité de lecture / révision	a review board / body

 

Etudes et publications | Studies and publications

étude prospective / rétrospective	prospective / retrospective study
essai clinique / pharmaceutique	clinical / pharmaceutical trial
essai contrôlé / comparatif contre placebo	placebo-controlled trial
essai contrôlé et randomisé	randomised controlled trial
étude de cas-témoins	case-control / case-controlled study
étude en simple aveugle / insu	single-blind / blinded study
étude en double aveugle / insu	double-blind / blinded study
étude de test diagnostique / essai diagnostique	diagnosis study / test
étude pronostique	prognosis study
étude transversale	cross sectional survey / transversal study
étude croisée	cross-over study
étude multicentrique	multicentre study
étude de population	population-based study
étude en milieu hospitalier	hospital-based study
cas clinique	case report
revue systématique et méta-analyse	systematic review and meta-analysis
article préliminaire	early report
mise au point et revue générale	review paper / review of the literature
compte-rendu court	brief report
lettre à la rédaction	letter to the editor
lieu / contexte de l’étude	setting
population concernée	study population

  

INTERACTIVE EXERCISES

 

 

A - Translate the following sentences into French.

 

1. Nature is a high-profile journal with a high impact factor.

Nature est une revue prestigieuse à fort facteur d'impact.

 

2. To carry out a double-blind study, one must ensure that neither the patients nor the doctors know who has been given the placebo.

Pour mener à bien une étude en double aveugle, il faut s'assurer que ni les patients ni les médecins ne savent qui a reçu le placebo.

 

3. The paper was turned down because it was not a randomized controlled trial.

L'article a été refusé car il ne s'agissait pas d'un essai contrôlé et randomisé.

 

4. Peer-reviewing is a particularly demanding job.

L'évaluation par les pairs est un travail particulièrement exigeant.

 

5. The results of hospital-based studies do not reflect what happens in the population at large.

Les résultats des études en milieu hospitalier ne reflètent pas ce qui se passe dans la population générale.

 

B - You have just completed a study on the subject of your choice.

Write an e-mail to your colleague John Finlay to present your study and ask for advice about which journal to submit it to (100-150 words).

 

 

Here is an example written by a rehabilitation therapist:

Dear John,

As you know, I’m currently working in the rehabilitation unit with patients who have undergone heart surgery –CABG mostly. I’ve just completed a study that analyses the results of the different rehabilitation programmes we use.

The research is interesting because I decided to use the 200-metre fast-walk test to assess patients at baseline, at different stages of the programme and then just before discharge. The 200MFWT is ideal for such studies because it is relatively safe in these extremely fragile patients (compared to maximal exercise tests, for example) and it gives a pretty accurate assessment of a patient’s functional capacity.

The results about the effectiveness of the different training strategies are quite interesting and could help practitioners decide which strategy to choose for a particular patient.

You have a lot of experience in this type of study and I’m writing to you to ask for your advice about which journal to submit to. I’d like to know pretty quickly so that I can get a copy of the Instructions to Authors before I start writing the article.

Thanks in advance for your help on this.

Let me know if you need any more information to make the right choice.

All the best.