title: How to build a scientific publishing career based on hundreds of letters-to-the-editor: "The Art of Loss".
abstract: Letters-to-the-editor represent an important characteristic of scientific interchange especially because the initial peer-review may not fulfill the qualitative control of a manuscript. On the other hand, it is well known that such publications are accepted easier than regular ones and may be a gateway for authors without outstanding scientific merits to input their names in high impact factor journals. A letter-to-the-editor (intended as a commentary to one of our works) allowed us to discover a very peculiar and unexpected fact for the medical literature, worthy to be shared with the worldwide scientific community.
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Victor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timişoara, Romania. raul.neghina@gmail.com
authors.forename: Raul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Neghina
authors.forename: Adriana M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Neghina
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D002321:Career Choice; D003142:Communication; D015709:Correspondence as Topic; D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D008373:Manuscripts as Topic; D010380:Peer Review; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing; D014956:Writing