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B – Misconduct in retracted scientific publications10 January 2013Fang FC, Steen RG, Casadevall A. Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012;109(42):16751-16752(doi: 10.1073/iti4212109) A detailed review of all 2,047 […]
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B – ORCID: a system to uniquely identify researchers10 January 2013Haak LL, Fenner M, Paglione L et al. ORCID: a system to uniquely identify researchers. Learned Publishing 2012;25(4):259-264(doi: 10.1087/20120404) ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID) aims to provide a solution […]
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B – How much doctoral clinical research is published?14 December 2012Caan W, Cole M. How much doctoral research on clinical topics is published? Evidence-Based Medicine 2012;17(3):71-74(doi: 10.1136/ebmed-2011-100227) This study aimed to determine how often clinical research from doctoral degree programmes is […]
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B – Open access publishing: advantages and disadvantages14 December 2012Manista FC. “Open don’t mean free”: a reflection on the potential advantages and disadvantages of open access publishing. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2012;1(2):eP1049.(doi: 10.7710/2162-3309.1049) The evolution of open […]
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B – Embargo on Iranian scientific publications10 December 2012Lankarani KB, Haghdoost A, Smith P. Embargo on publication of scientific papers by Iranian authors. The Lancet 2012;380(9842)648 649 (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61369-5) Since the Islamic revolution in 1979 scientists from Iranian institutions […]
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B – Publication of public health theses in Turkey10 December 2012Sipahi H, Durusoy R, Ergin I, et al. Publication rates of public health theses in international and national peer-review journals in Turkey. Iranian Journal of Public Health 2012;41(9):31-35 This study investigated […]
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B – Plagiarism in scientific publishing10 December 2012Masic I. Plagiarism in the scientific publishing. Acta Informatica Medica 2012;20(4):208-213(doi: 10.5455/aim.2012.20.208-213) The author describes his experiences in discovering plagiarism as Editor-in-Chief of three indexed medical journals. He also presents […]
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B – Relationship between impact factor and papers’ citations6 December 2012Lazano GA, Larivière V, Gingras Y. The weakening relationship between the impact factor and papers’ citations in the digital age. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology […]
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B – Authors’ COI disclosure in Iranian medical journals5 December 2012Heidari A, Adeli SH, Mehravaran S. et al. Addressing ethical considerations and authors’ conflict of interest disclosure in medical journals in Iran. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2012;9(4):457-462(doi: 10.1007/s11673-012-9393-8) This study […]
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B – Consequences of conflict of interest disclosure5 December 2012Loewenstein G, Sah S, Cain DM. The unintended consequences of conflict of interest disclosure. JAMA 2012;307(7):669-670(doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.154) Conflicts of of interest, both financial and nonfinancial, are ubiquitous in medicine, and […]
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B – Selecting the right journal5 December 2012Welch SJ. Selecting the right journal for your submission. Journal of Thoracic Disease 2012;4(3):336-338(doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2012.05.06) One of the key decisions an author must make is where to submit his paper. […]
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B – Does endorsement of reporting guidelines infuence the completeness of reporting?5 December 2012Shamseer L, Stevens A, Skidmore B. et al. Does journal endorsement of reporting guidelines influence the completeness of reporting of health research? A systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews 2012;1(1):24(doi: 10.1186/2046-4053-1-24) […]