A special sentence in Manuscript Writing

Committed statements in academic papers refer to those statements that indicate that you or your laboratory will complete a specific research work in the future. Only a few fields accept such statements, while other fields do not advocate the use of such statements, and some journals even prohibit them completely. There are two problems with committed statements:

1. Make it clear that your next research is contrary to the spirit of science. It doesn’t matter which individual or group completes research. If a high school student has the ability and right to complete the work, it’s impossible to try to take the future research idea as his own. Although it is true that everyone is worried about being reported by others first, no scholar should claim that a certain idea belongs to himself before the research is completed.

2. Commitment statements are often used to try to explain incomplete research work. However, the effectiveness of existing work should not depend on the commitment to confirmatory work in the future. The future research direction mentioned in the article should be about new ideas, not verifying the current research results. When trying to avoid potential criticism from reviewers with committed statements, these statements are very fragile and vulnerable. Remember not to use such a strategy.

This is not to say that commitment statements cannot be used, but you need to know the following:

1) Does your target journal accept commitment statements

2) Is it generally accepted in your field

3) Do you want to point out the direction of future research, or do you want to try to persuade the reviewers to accept incomplete research work.