Scientific Writing and Publication Strategies for Oral Health Professionals

This is the first-known book on research writing and scientific publication strategies specifically aimed at oral health professionals.

Scientific writing makes it possible for the knowledge acquired from research to be evaluated by peers, circulated and made available for broad public consumption. This process also serves as a means of evidence evaluation by the wider society. This book focuses on how to present and publish research evidence, detailing in an accessible way how this requires not only research skills and expertise, but also a good command of scientific language, communication and presentation. 

This manual guides readers on the acquisition of the knowledge, skills, and competencies to communicate the results of scientific research accurately, effectively and clearly. This manual also provides the practical skills of how and where to publish a range of formats (poster, manuscript, reports), including submission to peer review and responding to criticism and reviewers' feedback. Although the book focuses on oral health professionals, its content is highly relevant to all health professionals. Among the topics covered are:

• Document Taxonomy: research protocol, grant proposal, manuscript, conference presentations
• Publication Types: Diversifying Scholarly Communication 
• Enhancing Research Transparency: Open Protocols, Access, and FAIR Data
• Preparation of an Original Article
• Article Submission Strategy 
• A Guide to Successful Conference Presentations 
• Navigating the Peer Review Process 

Scientific Writing and Publication Strategies for Oral Health Professionals offers guidance on how to acquire the skills required to write scientific articles. Readers include motivated health professionals, research scholars, academics and faculty members, both undergraduate and postgraduate students, editors of scientific journals in the health area, supervisors of higher degree students, and trainers of oral health professionals of various disciplines interested in research and the publication of research results in high-impact scientific journals.

Rodrigo Mariño, CD, MPH, PhD is a public health dentist and professorial fellow at the Melbourne Dental School, The University of Melbourne, Australia, where he has worked since 2004. Prof. Mariño has a dental degree from the University of Chile, a master’s in public health (University of Minnesota), and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Prof. Mariño also has an Honorary appointment with the Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile, and holds a position at the Population Oral Health and Research, Dental Services Monash Health in Melbourne, Australia, and at Riga Stradins University, Latvia. Prof. Mariño has also been a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization in Washington, DC. 

Prof. Mariño’s research focuses strongly on oral health promotion and reducing inequalities in oral health status. Prof. Mariño has excellent research expertise in social epidemiology, health economics, dental workforce issues, public health, migrant health, information and communication technology, gerontology and population oral health. He has established links and maintains continuous contact and research activities with major research and academic groups in Australia and overseas. Prof. Mariño has published more than 190 papers in scientific journals, several major research reports, 50 book chapters and five books.    
Prof. Mariño was a founder and first President of the e-Oral Health Research Network, International Association for Dental Research (IADR), and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Dental Research, BMC Oral Health, Dental Traumatology, and Gerodontology. 

Sergio E. Uribe, DDS, MSc, PhD is an academic and researcher, currently serving as an Associate Professor at both Riga Stradins University, Latvia, and Universidad Austral de Chile. A/Prof. Uribe holds a bachelor’s in dental science, a Master's in Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology from the University of Valparaiso and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.

Associate Professor at the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Oral Health, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia, and Visiting Professor at LMU Klinikum, LMU, Munich, Germany. He holds a DDS, is a Specialist in Maxillofacial Radiology (MSc), and has a PhD. Prof. Uribe's research interests include diagnostic imaging, cariology, artificial intelligence, meta-research, and dental education. He is the Principal Investigator of the Global Initiative on AI for Health (GI-AI4H), a collaborative effort by WHO/ITU/WIPO to advance the application of artificial intelligence in dentistry. Prof. Uribe serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Dental Research and the Dental Traumatology Journal and has reviewed over 400 papers for more than 30 journals. In 2007, the International Dental Association in New Orleans, USA, honored him with the Research in Prevention Travel Award.

Ebingen Villavicencio-Caparó is a dental surgeon with a master's degree in Stomatology from the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia, a doctorate in Health Sciences from the Catholic University of Santa María Arequipa Peru. Prof. Villavicencio is a specialist in Statistics and a researcher accredited by the National Secretariat of Science and Technology SENESCYT of Ecuador. He works as a professor of scientific writing and research methodology in postgraduate courses in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. He was appointed as a member of the committee of experts in oral health of the Ministry of Health of Peru. Prof. Villavicencio was responsible for the publications of journals and books at the Catholic University of Cuenca, Ecuador. He was also Chief Editor of the EDUNICA Catholic University Editorial of Cuenca, Ecuador. He has contributed to publications of journal articles and books on oral health epidemiology and philosophy of science. He was academic coordinator of the doctorate in Stomatology at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and is currently a professor of statistics and philosophy of science in the same doctorate. He is currently the academic coordinator of the master’s degree in public health at the Catholic University of Cuenca, Ecuador.