In 2024, many CCO authors make outstanding contributions to our journal. Their articles published with us have received very well feedback in the field and stimulate a lot of discussions and new insights among the peers.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding authors who have been making immense efforts in their research fields, with a brief interview of their unique perspective and insightful view as authors.

Outstanding Authors (2024)

Yasuhiro Nakamura, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Japan

Outstanding Author

Yasuhiro Nakamura

Dr. Yasuhiro Nakamura, MD, PhD, is a board-certified dermatologist and dermato-oncologist and a Professor of the Department of Skin Oncology/Dermatology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Japan. His fields of interest include dermatologic oncology, dermatologic surgery, and drug therapy for skin cancer. He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Japanese Skin Cancer Guidelines. He has conducted projects regarding surgery for skin cancer (Confirmatory Trial of Non-amputative Digit Preservation Surgery in Subungual Melanoma (JCOG1602, J-NAIL), and confirmatory trial of narrower side margin excision for basal cell carcinoma in the Japanese population (JCOG2005, J-BASE-MARGIN)).

Dr. Nakamura thinks that a good research paper is clear about what the problem is. In addition, the subject and methods should be appropriate, and the results should have new findings. In particular, if the problem is unclear and the subject and methods are incorrect, the interpretation of the results will be difficult, and valid conclusions will not be obtained.

During preparation of a paper, Dr. Nakamura believes a basic rule should be followed – to avoid redundant and repetitive sentences. To him, it is important to describe what the problem is, how the research was designed and planned to solve it, and what the conclusions were based on the results in a concise and easy-to-understand manner.

Seeing the prevalence of data sharing in scientific writing in recent years, Dr. Nakamura indicates that it is important but prudent for authors to share research data. In his opinion, data sharing has the potential to bring researchers with different backgrounds and research interests together to share ideas and generate new ideas and research. An online platform would also allow other researchers to review and upload the progress of their research. Data sharing could also help prevent research misconduct if detailed data are made available to the public. On the other hand, there are issues of reliability of shared data and authorship through data sharing.

(by Brad Li, Alisa Lu)