Discussion on several issues about topic and writing of review paper about meteorological science and technology

The academic journals of meteorological science and technology of China take the solicitation of review meteorological scientific and technological paper (RMSTP) as an important way to improve their core competitiveness and bibliometric evaluation indicators. Therefore, high-quality RMSTPs are favored by journals, and many scientists are also stimulated to write RMSTP. In order to advise the authors to write a successful RMSTP, this paper first introduces the four principles of the topic for RMSTP, and divides RMSTP into two types: overview type and discussion type. It highlights the importance of writing motivation and the scopes of time, space, and topic for RMSTP, and provides the suggestion about how to express them properly in the paper. Meanwhile, taking three RMSTP's published in recent years as examples, this paper focuses on the problems that should be paid attention to in the text structure and its content expression, summary writing, and literature citation of RMSTP. Finally, it points out that writing a successful RMSTP requires the author to read large number of literatures and have rich scientific research and writing experiences. In addition, the authors needs to develop themselves to have the sensitivity and insights to the scientific frontiers and development trend of certain discipline or professional field, as well as the corresponding abilities of comprehensive analysis and reviewing.