As the editor of EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles (1), first published in 2010 and updated annually till 2018, I did my best to promote more efficient scientific communication worldwide and draw attention to ethical issues related to it. However, there is still a great need to improve the editing of medical journals, as rightly noted by Masic and Jankovic (2). Their effort to provide evidence-based practical guidelines for journal editors is particularly noteworthy. The eleven basic principles of editing biomedical scientific journals formulated by them direct our attention to weaknesses and mistakes of editing and suggest solutions to them. I would like to comment on some of their suggestions here, in relation to the new EASE campaign Help scientists save time (3), initiated in October. The campaign is aimed to encourage scholarly journal editors to simplify the technical requirements for initial manuscript submission by means of a revised EASE Quick-Check Table (4, 5), so that scientists could save time for research.
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