What Editors Wish Authors Knew: A Guide to Smarter Submissions
09-11, 07:30–08:00 (Europe/Istanbul), Humanitarian + Transverse Activities + Global Outreach 2

This interactive session will highlight editors’ key insights to help ENT authors improve submission quality, clarity, and publication success.


To share practical editorial advice aimed at improving manuscript submissions in ENT journals. This session will focus on common author mistakes, optimal manuscript structure, ethical considerations, and what truly influences editorial decisions. By making editorial expectations more transparent, it aims to enhance submission quality and reduce rejection rates.

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Prof. Taner Kemal Erdağ graduated from Ege University School of Medicine in 1990 and completed his residency in Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, in 1994. After fulfilling his military service and working in private practice, he joined Dokuz Eylul University in 1999, where he served until his retirement in 2023.

His main field of interest is pediatric otolaryngology. He was President of the Turkish Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery from 2018 to 2023. Prof. Erdağ has published 93 peer-reviewed articles and presented 192 papers at national and international meetings.

Since 2015, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology and served as Section Editor for the Balkan Medical Journal (2015–2021). He chaired the Turkish Chapter of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) from 2023 to 2025.

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