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A: ESE Author Q&A: Lisa Colledge29 April 2016In August, European Science Editing featured an article by Lisa Colledge and Chris James from the research metrics team at Elsevier. The paper, titled A “basket of metrics”—the best support […]
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A: ESE Author Q&A: Professor Rajshekhar Bipeta11 April 2016For the second instalment of our ESE Authors interview series, we spoke to psychiatrist, Professor Rajshekhar Bipeta of Gandhi Medical College, Musheerabad, India. Professor Bipeta is a consultant psychiatrist, at […]
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B – Peer review under the spotlight5 April 2016Banks M. Peer review under the spotlight. Physics World 2016;29(2):12-13 The article discusses the increasing difficulties facing peer review and discusses various possible solutions including double blind peer review, open […]
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B – How to make published science more rigorous1 April 2016Allison DB, Brown AW, George BJ, et al. A tragedy of errors. Nature 2016; 530:27-29 In this article the authors summarized their experience, the main barriers they encountered, and their […]
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B – Overpowering images1 April 2016Redberg RF. Overpowering images. JAMA Internal Medicine 2016;176(1):17(doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.6933) While there has been an exponential increase in medical imaging, there are few data demonstrating improvements in outcome, and imaging that requires […]
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B – Health-related data protection1 April 2016Dove ES, Thompson B, Knoppers BM. A step forward for data protection and biomedical research. The Lancet 2016;387(10026):1374-1375 A European General Data Protection Regulation that is favourable for research was […]
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B – Reporting P values in the biomedical literature1 April 2016Chavalarias D, Wallach JD, Li AH, et al. Evolution of reporting P values in the biomedical literature, 1990-2015. JAMA 2016;315(11):1141-1148(doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.1952) Many research fields in biomedicine and other disciplines use […]
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B – Core competencies for scientific editors30 March 2016Galipeau J, Barbour V, Baskin P, et al. A scoping review of competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals. BMC Medicine 2016;14:16(doi: 10.1186/s12916-016-0561-2) This scoping review is the first attempt to […]
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B – Personalized medicine30 March 2016Schork NJ. Personalized medicine: time for one-person trials. Nature 2015;520:609-611 (doi:10.1038/520609a) Every day, millions of people are taking medications that will not help them. The top ten highest-grossing drugs in […]
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B – Emerging trends in peer review30 March 2016Walker R, Rocha da Silva P. Emerging trends in peer review—a survey. Frontiers in Neuroscience 2015;9:169.(doi: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00169) “Classical peer review” has been subject to intense criticism for slowing down the […]
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B – Open access platforms for clinical trial data30 March 2016Navar AM, Pencina MJ, Rymer JA, et al. Use of open access platforms for clinical trial data. (Letter). JAMA 2016;315(12):1283-1284(doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.2374) Concerns over bias in clinical trial reporting have stimulated […]
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B – Predatory open access30 March 2016Shen C, Bjork B. “Predatory” open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics. BMC Medicine 2015;13:230 (doi: 10.1186/s12916-015-0469-2) The so-called predatory publishers are causing unfounded negative publicity […]