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Research Letters.  

• In Types of Articles
• Correspondence.

Phil B. Fontanarosa

in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11th edn)

Some journals also include brief articles that report original research data in a concise manner. For example, the JAMA Network journals classify these as Research Letters.6 These reports contain brief Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion sections; are peer reviewed and subject to editorial review, like other research reports; and have limitations for length, number of references, and numbers of tables and figures. Research letters are indexed in bibliometric databases and may be an effective way for authors to publish concise, focused reports of studies....