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PUBLISHING16 August 2006“When buzzwords collide”. Using the slogan, and I am not trying to be funny here, “Open Access 2.0”, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) has launched a journal to compete […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES16 August 2006Holden C 2006 The undisclosed background of a paper on a depression treatment Science 313:598-9 Science reports failure to declare conflicts of interest by Editor-in-Chief and editorial board members of […]
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PRACTICE OF PUBLISHING14 August 2006Glänzel W, Schlemmer B,Schubert A, Thijs B. 2006. Proceedings literature as additional data source for bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics 68(3):457-73 Proceedings of scientific meetings are important sources of scholarly communication and […]
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LANGUAGE AND WRITING12 August 2006Flores G. 2006. Language barriers to health care in the United States.N Engl J Med.20;355(3):229-31.Many patients who need medical interpreters have no access to them. Language barriers can have deleterious […]
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ECONOMICS AND FUNDING12 August 2006Loscalzo, Joseph. 2006. The NIH Budget and the Future of Biomedical Research. New England Journal of Medicine. 354(16):1665-1667Whatever mechanisms are chosen, it seems clear that new methods of support must […]
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POLITICS OF PUBLISHING12 August 2006Buela-Casal, Gualberto; Perakakis, Pandelis; Taylor, Michael; Checa, Purificacion. 2006. Measuring internationality: Reflections and perspectives on academic journals. Scientometrics. 67(1):45-65 Internationality as a concept is being applied ambiguously, particularly in the […]
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PRACTICE OF PUBLISHING12 August 2006Lowell L. Hargens and Jerald R. Herting. 2006. Analyzing the association between referees’ recommendations and editors’ decisions Scientometrics 67 (1): 15-26 The association between referee recommendations and editorial decisions at […]
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SCIENCE12 August 2006UK Royal Society. 2006. Science and the public interest: Communicating the results of new scientific research to the public The Royal Society: London The vast majority of scientific papers are […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES3 August 2006Collins Jannette. 2006. Professionalism and Physician Interactions With Industry. Journal of the American College of Radiology. 3 (5):325-332 This article presents a broad framework for understanding the professional and legal […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES3 August 2006Goldberg David M. 2006. Is scientific publishing a criminal activity?Clinical Biochemistry 39(5):473-481 A published scientific paper is the end-result of a complex interaction between authors, referees, editors and publishers. Each […]
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SCIENCE30 July 2006O’Grady Laura. 2006. Future directions for depicting credibility in health care web sites. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 75 (1):58-65The purpose of the paper was to determine a theoretical framework […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES30 July 2006Bonetta Laura. 2006 The Aftermath of Scientific Fraud. Cell. 124 (5):873-875When a retraction is published it appears in PubMed linked to the original paper, thereby alerting scientists to the problem, […]