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B – Methods of assessing a scientific paper17 January 2014Eyre-Walker A, Stoletzki N. The assessment of science: the relative merits of post-publication review, the impact factor, and the number of citations. PLoS Biology 2013;11(10):e1001675(doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001675) This article investigates three methods […]
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B – Open peer review: a review of the literature17 January 2014Ford E. Defining and characterizing open peer review: a review of the literature. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 2013; 44(4):311-326 (doi: 10.1353/scp.2013.0028) This article examines the literature discussing open peer review, identifies common […]
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B – Bibliometric indicators of Russian journals17 January 2014Libkind AN, Markusova VA, Mindeli LE, et al. Bibliometric indicators of Russian journals by JCR-Science Edition, 1995-2010. Acta Naturae 2013;5(3):6-12 A representative empirical bibliometric analysis of the Russian journals covered […]
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B – Reducing waste from reports of biomedical research14 January 2014Glasziou P, Altman DG, Bossuyt P, et al. Reducing waste from incomplete or unusable reports of biomedical research. The Lancet publ.online Jan.8, 2014(doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62228-X) Most publications have elements that are […]
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B – Reduce waste in research design, conduct, and analysis14 January 2014Ioannidis JPA,Greenland S, Htlatky MA, et al. Increasing value and reducing waste in research design, conduct, and analysis. The Lancet publ.online Jan.8, 2014(doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62227-8) The authors outlined several problems and […]
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B – How to increase value and reduce waste in biomedical research14 January 2014Chalmers I, Bracken M, Djulbegovic B, et al. How to increase value and reduce waste when research priorities are set. The Lancet 2014;383(9912):156-165(doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62229-1) This is the first article in […]
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B – Teaching scientific editing19 December 2013Willey I, Tanimoto K. “Convenience editors” as legitimate participants in the practice of scientific editing: an interview study. Journal of English for Academic Purposers 2013;12(1):23-32 This study explored how English […]
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B – What makes a good title?19 December 2013Grant MJ. What makes a good title? Health Information and Library Journal 2013;30:259-260(doi: 10.1111/hir.12049) What factors transform a mediocre title into a good title? Firstly, it should be both informative […]
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B – Benchmarking biomedical publications19 December 2013Boissier MC. Benchmarking biomedical publications worldwide. Rheumatology 2013;52(9):1545-1546. (doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/ket181) The volume of science as evaluated by the number of publications is increasing 10-fold every 50 years, and the number of […]
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B – Use of double dummy trial19 December 2013Marušić A, Ferenčić SF. Adoption of the double dummy trial design to reduce observer bias in testing treatments. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2013;106(5):196-198 (doi: 10.1177/0141076813485350) The […]
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B – Editing across borders19 December 2013Drouart M (Ed.) Editing across borders: papers from the 6th IPEd National Editors Conference, 10-12 April 2013, Perth, Western Australia.Online proceedings of a Conference on editing held in April 2013 in […]
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B – Gender differences in research collaboration18 December 2013Abramo G, D’Angelo CA, Murgia G. Gender differences in research collaboration. Journal of Informetrics 2013;7(4):811-822(doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.07.002) The issue of gender aspects in research collaborations has been treated in a marginal […]