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B – Peer review for RCT19 September 2014Patel J. Why training and specialization is needed for peer review: a case study of peer review for randomized controlled trials. BMC Medicine 2014;12:128(doi: 10.1186/s12916-014-0128-z) Innovations in peer review have […]
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B – Impact factor mania19 September 2014Casadevall A, Fang FC. Causes for the persistence of impact factor mania. mBio 2014;5(2):e00064-14 (doi: 10.1128/mBio.00064-14)Science and scientists are currently afflicted by an epidemic of mania manifested by associating the value […]
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B – An example of unethical behaviour19 September 2014Masic I. A new example of unethical behavior in the academic journal “Medical Archives”. Medical Archives 2014;68(4):228-230(doi: 10.5455/medarh.2014.68.228.230) A recent case of unethical behaviour by authors who have submitted their […]
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B – Plagiarism and ethics19 September 2014Jamali R, Ghazinoory S, Sadeghi M. Plagiarism and ethics of knowledge. Journal of Information Ethics 2014;23(1):101-110(doi: 10.3172/JIE.23.1.101) This study aims to investigate whether there is any difference between plagiarism volumes […]
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B – Scholarly publishing trends 201419 September 2014Smart P. The big picture: scholarly publishing trends 2014. Science Editing 2014;1(2):52-57(doi: 10.6087/kcse.2014.1.52) This article considers the changes that have happened recently to the scholarly journal environment, starting with the […]
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B – Science transparency30 July 2014Denegri S, Faure H. It’s plain and simple: transparency is good for science and in the public interest. Trials 2013;14:215 (doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-215) In the past couple of years, there has […]
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B – Lay summaries of OA articles30 July 2014Nunn E, Pinfield S. Lay summaries of open access journal articles: engaging with the general public on medical research. Learned Publishing 2014;27(3):173-184(doi: 10.1087/20140303) This study investigates attitudes towards the addition […]
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B – Periodicals price survey 201430 July 2014Bosch S, Henderson K. Steps down the evolutionary road. Periodicals price survey 2014. Library Journal April 2014 The article discusses the serials and scholarly publishing industry as of April 2014, […]
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B – Recommended procedures for retracting articles30 July 2014Gilliver S. Recommended procedures for retracting articles: inadequate or patchily applied? Analysis of a recent article in PLoS One examining the fates of retracted articles. Medical Writing 2014;23(2):122-124(doi: 10.1179/2047480614Z000000000202) In […]
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B – The impact of retraction30 July 2014Madlock-Brown CR, Eichmann D. The (lack of) impact of retraction on citation networks. Science and Engineering Ethics e-pub March 2014(doi: 10.1007/s11948-014-9532-1) This paper presents an analysis of recent retraction patterns, […]
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B – Retractions of scientific publications30 July 2014Katavić V. Retractions of scientific publications: responsibility and accountability. Biochemia Medica 2014;24(2):217-222(doi: 10.11613/BM.2014.024) This evidence-based opinion piece gives a short overview of the increase in retractions of publications in scientific journals […]
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B – Quality of author guidelines30 July 2014Nambiar R, Tilak P, Cerejo C. Quality of author guidelines of journals in the biomedical and physical sciences. Learned Publishing 2014;27(3):201-209 (doi: 10.1087/20140306) This article aimed to assess quantitatively the […]