“Linking Cutting Edge Methods to Traditional Editorial Review Practices”

CITRM is urging trauma researchers to make use of cutting edge longitudinal methods to test theories and to describe the study’s results. The papers crafted to report these results are submitted to journals whose reviewers represent a mix of knowledge and skills with these quantitative methods. Crafting a paper to satisfy such a mixed group of reviewers has puzzled many of our colleagues. The objectives of the session are:

1. To identify the key steps and criteria in the traditional review process, using the Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology as a case study.
2. With input from the assembled group, to identify the experienced and perceived barriers to having a paper published, particularly when there appears to be difficulty in communicating how the design, methods and results related to the theory.
3. To do some problem solving with regard to the barriers identified above.
4. To provide a summarized list of approaches that may “work”.