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2022/07/29

How to handle ‘The language needs to be improved' reviewer comments

One of the most common comments reviewers make about papers from Japanese authors is ‘The language needs to be improved.’ Before submitting a new paper, most authors have their paper checked by an editing service. So when authors receive this comment, they are made to wonder if the service did...

2022/06/06

Making comparisons

We generally compare things in one of two ways. To choose the correct way, we need to choose whether we are comparing a thing with a similar thing, or with a standard or quite different thing. But authors – including most native speakers - commonly mix them up. The rule...

2022/04/28

About the Golden Week holidays

We will close from April 29th (Fri) to May 1st (Sun), and from May 3rd (Tue) to 5th (Thu). For urgent requests during this time, please email [email protected] with ‘URGENT’ in the subject line. Enquiries regarding translation orders and correspondence for billing will be handled when the office reopens...

2021/12/01

About the New Year holidays

恐れ入りますが、弊社の年内の営業は12月28日(火)18:00まで、年明けは1月5日(水)より通常営業致します。休業期間中お急ぎの英文校正のご依頼がございます場合は、弊社インフォメーション　[email protected] 宛に、件名の最初に ‘URGENT’ を付け加えた形でメールを頂ければと存じます。尚、誠に恐れ入りますが、上記休業期間中は、インフォメーション宛にご連絡を頂きましても翻訳（英訳／和訳）並びにご請求書類／領収書等の発行を承る事は出来ません。ご了承下さいます様よろしくお願い致します。

2021/08/26

AI to predict protein structure

In case you missed it, a highly important paper has just appeared, ‘Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome’ by Tunyasuvunakool et al. The researchers work at an AI company, DeepMind, based in the UK. Until now, predicting the folding of a protein product from the sequences that...

2021/08/03

About the Obon holiday

DMC will close from Aug 13th (Fri) to Aug 16th (Mon) for the Obon holiday. For urgent requests during this time, please email us at [email protected] with ‘URGENT’ included in the subject line'. Please note that we are unable to support translation requests during the holiday.

2021/01/23

Journals and editing Part 1. The journal editor who did not understand his journals' requirements.

A paper we edited was recently accepted by a journal from a well-known publisher. The two authors, from the National Cancer Center and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, had acknowledged our work in the paper’s Acknowledgments section: We appreciate Guy Harris of DMC Corp. (www.dmed.co.jp) for assistance with...

2020/12/18

About the New Year holidays

恐れ入りますが、弊社の年内の営業は12月28日(月)18:00まで、年明けは1月5日(火)より通常営業致します。休業期間中お急ぎの英文校正のご依頼がございます場合は、弊社インフォメーション　[email protected] 宛に、件名の最初に ‘URGENT’ を付け加えた形でメールを頂ければと存じます。尚、誠に恐れ入りますが、上記休業期間中は、インフォメーション宛にご連絡を頂きましても翻訳（英訳／和訳）並びにご請求書類／領収書等の発行を承る事は出来ません。ご了承下さいます様よろしくお願い致します。

2020/12/10

Guide-only word counts - the start of a (perfectly reasonable) trend?

Journals have long specified strict word counts for submitted papers. Indeed, some online submission systems count the words in a submitted paper, and automatically reject those which exceed the limit, even if only by one word. Authors are fully aware of these limits, and often take painstaking efforts to meet...

2020/11/11

Text recycling - the view of the editor of a major Japanese journal

Regarding our previous post on iThenticate’s similarity index, we got some feedback from a senior Japanese researcher. She has been the editor of the major Japanese journal in her field, and has published a lot of papers. So she understands the self-plagiarism problem as both journal editor and author. She...

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How to handle ‘The language needs to be improved' reviewer comments

Making comparisons

About the Golden Week holidays

About the New Year holidays

AI to predict protein structure

About the Obon holiday

Journals and editing Part 1. The journal editor who did not understand his journals' requirements.

About the New Year holidays

Guide-only word counts - the start of a (perfectly reasonable) trend?

Text recycling - the view of the editor of a major Japanese journal

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