{"id":404,"date":"2006-11-22T12:38:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T10:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2006\/11\/22\/materials-and-methods\/"},"modified":"2007-01-06T12:31:02","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T10:31:02","slug":"materials-and-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/materials-and-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials and Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually &#8220;materials and methods&#8221; section is in the second paragraph; some journals put it also at the end of a paper. As a reviewer I have always insisted that this heading should be extended to &#8220;Patients, materials and methods&#8221; while in epidemiology we frequently use the term subjects (BTW epidemiologists have a rather militaristic vocabulary: recruited, cohorts :-) ). The anonymous reviewer of a previous paper now pointed out: <em>Use the phrase &#8220;participant&#8221; throughout and not &#8220;subjects&#8221; which has reductionist connotations<\/em>. I promise to use &#8220;participants&#8221; from now on, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually &#8220;materials and methods&#8221; section is in the second paragraph; some journals put it also at the end of a paper. As a reviewer I have always insisted that this heading should be extended to &#8220;Patients, materials and methods&#8221; while in epidemiology we frequently use the term subjects (BTW epidemiologists have a rather militaristic vocabulary: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/11\/materials-and-methods\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Materials and Methods<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14,243,246,245,244,248,249,247],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-human-rights","tag-anonymous_reviewer","tag-cohorts","tag-connotations","tag-epidemiologists","tag-journal","tag-phrase","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}