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B – Ethical medical communications5 October 2016Smalley S. Staying ahead of the game in the changing arena of ethical medical communications – Viewpoint of a freelance medical writer. Medical Writing 2016;25(2):13-17 Good publication practices as well […]
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B – Publishing elite against impact factor5 October 2016Callaway E. Beat it, impact factor! Publishing elite turns against controversial metric. Nature 2016;535(7611):210-211 Senior staff at societies and leading journals want to end inappropriate use of impact factor. They […]
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B – Content and phrasing in titles4 October 2016Kerans ME, Murray A, Sabatè S. Content and phrasing in titles of original research and review articles in 2015: range of practice in four clinical journals. Publications 2016;4(2),11(doi: 10.3390/publications402011) This study […]
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B – Photoshopping science4 October 2016Patterson K. Is photoshopping science universally wrong? The Conversation June 1, 2016 Photoshop has become a proprietary eponym for image manipulation, and manipulation of scientific images is universally unethical. Scientists […]
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B – Readability of academic blogs4 October 2016Hartley J, Cabanac G. Are two authors better than one? Can writing in pairs affect the readability of academic blogs? Scientometrics 2016 The literature on academic writing suggests that writing […]
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B – Ghostwriting in drug marketing4 October 2016Matheson A. Ghostwriting: the importance of definition and its place in contemporary drug marketing. BMJ 2016;354:i4578(doi: 10.1136/bmj.i4578) During the past decade, the pharmaceutical publications industry has campaigned to persuade medicine, […]
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B – Self-citation rates higher for men23 September 2016Singh Chawla D. Self-citation rates higher for men. Nature 2016;535:212 Men cite their own papers 56% more than women on average, according to an analysis of 1.5 million studies published […]
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B – OA bibliography23 September 2016Bailey CW, Jr. Transforming scholarly publishing through open access: a bibliography. Digital Scholarship 2010 This publication with over 1,100 references provides in-depth coverage of published journal articles, books, and other textual […]
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B – Gold OA sustainability23 September 2016Mellon Foundation. Pay it forward. Investigating a sustainable model of open access article processing charges for large North American research institutions. 185p. A major study conducted by the University of […]
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B – Predatory journals23 September 2016Beall J. Best practices for scholarly authors in the age of predatory journals. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 2016;98(2):77-79(doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2016.0056) The author discusses one recent phenomenon that […]
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B – PhD thesis: being more open23 September 2016Burrough-Boenisch J. PhD thesis: being more open about PhD papers. Nature 2016;536:274(doi: 10.1038/536274b) In the Netherlands, a PhD thesis is published before the viva voce exam with an ISBN identifier […]
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B – Data exchange standards for peer review23 September 2016Paglione LD, Lawrence RN. Data exchange standards to support and acknowledge peer-review activity. Learned Publishing 2015;328:309-316(doi: 10.1087/20150411) A Working Group on Peer Review Service, facilitated by CASRAI, was created to […]