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Why Publish Chinese Version
of CHEST?
• China’s fast economic growth
- placing increased demands by healthcare providers to improve the quality of healthcare services delivered.
• Eager to access most updated medical information by doctors
• More easy to comprehend in Chinese
• Great desire to publish in English journals
• CHEST is a top clinical journal in respiratory field, and no translational journal in this field in China
About Everwell• Everwell is a information service company, providing medical
information services to Chinese medical and pharmaceutical
professionals.
• Established in 2001, Everwell has developed an in-depth
understanding of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical
professionals’ needs.
• Close working relationships with key medical organizations &
associations, hospitals and medical libraries, enabling us to
build a nationwide medical end user database.
• All our staffs are English-speaking graduates with medical
backgrounds and working experiences.
About Everwell
Everwell Products:
- Medical Newsletters
- Chinese versions medical journal publications
Chest China
Pediatrics China
- Chinese version of book publications
- Writing and Publication Workshops
- CME programs
- Professional Medical and Pharmaceutical
Translations
Everwell Solution of CHEST
Chinese Version
• Entry into a new, large market in China
• Localization high quality service
• Distribution
• Copyright protection
• Advertising support
• Reader insights & audits
CHEST CHINA Format
• Chinese version features articles selected from the English version of CHEST
• Translated into the local language
• Editorials appear from time to time, at the discretion of the local editorial board.
• The costs are underwritten by local pharmaceutical industry and the issues are distributed widely throughout the countries.
Fact Sheet
• Launched in May, 2004
• Monthly publication, with 80-page each issue, 8-10 full text articles, 25-30 abstracts
• Circulation: 8000
• Distribution: covers 32 provinces and every city in China
• Website: www.chestjournal.org.cn
2006 CMA journal survey: CHEST CHINA lists as No. 2 in respiratory journals.
CHEST CHINA Cover Page
Official Launch of CHEST
CHINA, May 2004
Key Components for
CHEST CHINA
• Editorial Board
• Translation Quality Control
• Reader insights & audits
Know who the readers are
What the readers are most interested
in
Things to do to improve CHEST CHINA
Editorial Board• Led by Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Zhong, Nan Shan
(Chairman, Chinese Medical Association)
• Editorial Board Members: consist of 36 eminent chest medicine physicians and medical scientists
• Annual Editorial Board Meeting
• EB select the most appropriate articles for Chinese readers
• EB translate the articles into Chinese
• Write editorials on selected articles
Annual Editorial Board Meeting
Translation Quality Control
Translation team• 180 free-lancer translators
• Have subspecialties on chest medicine
• Internal translation quality rating system
• Reviewed by Editorial Board members
Translation Guideline• Set up a translation Guideline
• Publish key-word translations every year on CHEST CHINA
Reader insights & audits
• Distributed to target readers
11,009 physicians with 5-year working
experience on chest medicine
12,318 physicians with less than 5-year working
experience on chest medicine
386 University libraries, School of Medicine
17,092 hospitals
• Information providers: 350
• Annual readers’ survey
2006 Reader Survey
• 781 readers participated the survey
• 35% Chief doctors, 31% deputy chief doctors, 28% Doctor-in-Charge, 5% residents, and 1%others
• Respiratory physicians 92%,Cardiosurgeon 3%, Cardiologist 2%
• 32% from East, 22% from North, 15% from South, 12% from West, 10% North West, 9% from North East
2006 Readers’ Survey
• 65% rated translation quality as excellent, 33% rated as
good;
• 96% likes the new cover page and layout
• The most popular columns are original research (66%)
and postgraduate corner (64%)
Comments & Suggestions:
• Publish Chinese original papers on CHEST CHINA ???
• Increase the volume of each issue
• Provide full-text services for interested articles
• Help to publish papers on CHEST English version ???
Help to Promote ACCP
• Most Chinese chest physicians learn ACCP from CHEST CHINA
• Grow ACCP membership in China
• Grow annual conference participation
• Writing and Publishing Workshops
ACCP New
Member
Reception
November, 2005
ACCP Member Reception
ACCP Member Reception
Writing and Publishing
WorkshopsEnablers/ barriers to submissions from China
• 95% doctors agree publishing in foreign scholarly journals beneficial to their academic careers in China
• Yet only 20% submitted to a foreign journal in the past 12 months
• Barriers to submitting articles
– 34% said writing in English is not easy
– 31% said not familiar publishing process
– 20% don’t know where to start for a scientific paper
Source: Everwell survey of Chinese authors, March 06 in 4 top hospitals in China
2005 CHEST CHINA Writing and
Publishing Workshops
2005 CHEST CHINA Writing and
Publishing Workshops
Pediatrics China Launched in
September, 2006
