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Your paper has just been peer reviewed: the editor responded that it has potential to be accepted but requires revision for language and legibility.
Solution Linguistic editing by a native English speaker who understands medical research.

You are writing up the results of a complex study that you aim to publish in a high-impact journal; you want to be sure that your paper is sent for peer review and that the review is favorable.
Solution Scientific-linguistic editing of the manuscript, to improve information flow, argumentation and presentation, and to check for accuracy and internal coherence. Particular care to the abstract and cover letter, to be sure to attract the editor's attention.

Scientific editing of biomedical and clinical research papers and reviews, since 1997

Valerie Matarese, Ph.D. is an independent biomedical editor-writer based in Italy

With over 10 years of experience editing papers for researchers and medical journals, I can confidently offer services with the following features:

Contact info@uptoit.org or +39-0423-985191 (tel./fax) for further information.

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Valerie Matarese, Ph.D. is an independent biomedical editor and writer and a native English speaker. Over the past 10 years, she has collaborated with publishers and researchers by offering:

In particular, over the years, she has collaborated with six small medical journals dedicated to neurology, diabetology headache, sports science, coloproctology and orthopaedics. Papers she has edited directly for authors have been published in, for example, Lancet Infect Dis, Molecular Cancer, Anal Biochem, Clin Immunol, Nucl Acids Res, Acta Diabetol, J Bioenerg Biomembranes, Bioinformatics, Hepatology and many others. She contributes original scientific commentary to MDCT.net, a website for medical professionals working with multidetector computed tomography.

Valerie Matarese was born in New York, USA. She earned a bachelors of science (B.S.) in 1984 at Cornell University (New York) and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at University of Minnesota in 1990. She worked in basic research in oral microbiology at the University of California at San Francisco (1984-1985), in cell and molecular biology at the Whitehead Institute (1990-1992) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and in molecular pharmacology at GlaxoWellcome Medicines Research Centre in Verona (1993-1998). In 2007, she was profiled in the careers section of Science. As author of original scientific articles, she has first-hand knowledge of biomedical research and publishing.

To stay current of the latest standards in scientific reporting, she is member of Mediterranean Editors and Translators, Council of Science Editors, European Association of Science Editors and World Association of Medical Editors. She is an advocate of good scientific writing and adherence to internationally accepted standards for quality reporting in the biomedical sciences, as shown by her recent publications:


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