{"id":1471,"date":"2008-02-01T09:34:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T07:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/write-letters-they-are-important\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T14:14:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T12:14:23","slug":"write-letters-they-are-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/02\/write-letters-they-are-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Write letters &#8211; they are important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific correspondence has always been important &#8211; as part of the dialectical and hermeneutical process of interpreting data. The value of scientific letters recently dropped for several reasons<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multiauthor papers may already have a balanced view<\/li>\n<li>Formalized discussion sections already contain most arguments<\/li>\n<li>There is no measurable &#8220;impact&#8221; as letters tend to be less cited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having two accepted letters (in JACI and Gut) I even received comments like &#8220;braggadocio&#8221; or &#8220;blowhard&#8221; &#8211; nevertheless I would like to defend this scientific tradition.<br \/>\nBiomedical science is increasingly data driven with researchers neither aware of the historical nor current multidisciplinary context. I think that letters are not only fun to read for their brevity but may also carry important information if carefully selected by editors, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 08.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific correspondence has always been important &#8211; as part of the dialectical and hermeneutical process of interpreting data. The value of scientific letters recently dropped for several reasons &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 08.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[699,1581,1580,1579],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-biomedical_science","tag-correspondence","tag-measurable_impact","tag-multidisciplinary_context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}