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B – Defining and responding to plagiarism24 June 2014Wager E. Defining and responding to plagiarism. Learned Publishing 2014;27(1):33-42(doi: 10.1087/20140105) A clear definition of plagiarism and the ability to classify it into more or less serious forms would help […]
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B – Upgrading instructions for authors24 June 2014Gasparyan AY, Ayvazyan L, Gorin SV, et al. Upgrading instructions for authors of scholarly journals. Croatian Medical Journal 2014;55:271-280(doi: 10.3325/cmj.2014.55.271)Journal instructions are important and need to be properly structured, linked […]
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B – Review of Wikipedia citations in health science literature24 June 2014Bould MD. Hladkowicz ES, Pigford AE, et al. References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature. BMJ 2014;348:g1585(doi: 10.1136/bmj.g1585) An increasing number of […]
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B – Citation increments between collaborating countries24 June 2014Lancho-Barrantes BS, Guerrero-Bote VP, de Moya-Anegon F. Citation increments between collaborating countries. Scientometrics 2013;94(3):817-831(doi: 10.1007/s11192-012-0797-3)International collaboration enhances citation impact. Collaborating with a country increments the citations received from it. The […]
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B – Internet publicity of data problems and corrective actions24 June 2014Brookes PS. Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action. PeerJ 2014;2:e313(doi: 10.7717/peerj.313) Data integrity is a common discussion topic, and it is widely […]
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B – Ethics of scholarly publishing24 June 2014Amos KA. The ethics of scholarly publishing: exploring differences in plagiarism and duplicate publication across nations. Journal of the Medical Library Association 2014;102(2):87-91(doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.102.2.005) This study explored national differences in […]
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B – Privacy protectionism and health information24 June 2014Allen J, Holman CD, Meslin EM, et al. Privacy protectionism and health information: is there any redress for harms to health? Journal of Law and Medicine 2013;21(2):473-485 Health information collected […]
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B – Science journalism24 June 2014Watts S. Society needs more than wonder to respect science. Nature 2014;508(7495):151(doi:10.1038/508151a) According to the author, there is a fundamental difference between science communication and science journalism: researchers are well […]
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B – Editorial research and publication process24 June 2014Marušić A, Malički M, von Elm E. Editorial research and the publication process in biomedicine and health: Report from the Esteve Foundation Discussion Group, December 2012. Biochemia Medica 2014;24(2):211-216(doi: 10.11613/BM.2014.023) The article […]
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B – Citation-related characteristics in scientific journals30 May 2014Sangwal K. Some citation-related characteristics of scientific journals published in individual countries. Scientometrics 2013;97:719-741(doi: 10.1007/s11192-013-1053-1) This bibliometric study on relationships between publication language, impact factors and self-citations of journals published […]
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B – Impact of article language in medical journals30 May 2014Diekhoff T, Schlattmann P, Dewey M. Impact of article language in multi-language medical journals – a bibliometric analysis of self-citations and impact factor. PLoS One 2013;8(10):e76816(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076816) This article analyzed the […]
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B – Open access respiratory journals30 May 2014Dai N, Xu D, Zhong X, et al. Publishing in open access era: focus on respiratory journals. Journal of Thoracic Disease 2014;6(5):564-5677.(doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.03.18) Open access (OA) journals benefit researchers and […]