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B – Authorship, scholarship and ergonomics27 September 2012Smith DR. Authorship, scholarship and ergonomics. Le Travail Humain 2012;72(4):397-403 Authorship represents a contentious issue for modern academics, researchers and journal editors. In recent years there has been an alarming […]
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B – History of citation-based research27 September 2012Smith DR. Impact factors, scientometrics and the history of citation-based research. Scientometrics 2012;92(2):419-427(doi: 10.1007/s11192-012-0685-x) This article provides an overview of some key historical events of relevance to the impact factor […]
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B – A protocol to report plagiarism27 September 2012Shamim T. Serious thoughts about plagiarism in India. Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia 2012;6(3):191(doi: 10.4103/1658-354X.101191) It is the prime duty of authors and editors to take strong decisions to tackle plagiarism at […]
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B – Predatory open access publishers18 September 2012Beall J. Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. Nature 2012;489:179 Predatory publishers are those publishing counterfeit journals to exploit the author-pays open access model. They set websites that closely resemble […]
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B – Identifying attractive research fields for new scientists17 September 2012Akritidis L, Katsaros D, Bozanis P. Identifying attractive research fields for new scientists. Scientometrics 2012;91(3):869-894(doi: 10.1007/s11192-012-0646-4) In this article authors attempted to identify the research fields that could be attractive […]
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B – Medical social networks use in Bosnia and Herzegovina17 September 2012Masic I, Sivic S, Pandza H. Social networks in medical education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Materia Socio Medica 2012;24(3):162-164(doi: 10.5455/msm.2012.24.162-164) The aim of this paper is to investigate to what […]
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B – Honorary authorship and contribution-specific index14 September 2012Kovacs J. Honorary authorship epidemic in scholarly publications? How the current use of citation-based evaluative metrics make (pseudo)honorary authors from honest contributors of every multi-author article? Journal of Medical Ethics […]
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N – Elsevier ethics resources10 September 2012Elsevier has launched a new resource on research and publication ethics, aimed at young researchers. The website (www.ethics.elsevier.com) includes an ethics toolkit, a useful list of resources, testimonials and interviews, […]
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B – Open access versus subscription journals7 September 2012Björk B-C, Solomon D. Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific impact. BMC Medicine 2012;10:73(doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-73)The aim of this study was to compare the scientific impact of open […]
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B – A look at medical journal editors7 September 2012Wong VS, Callaham ML. Medical journal editors lacked familiarity with scientific publication issues despite training and regular exposure. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2012;65(3):247-252(doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.08.003) One hundred eighty-three editors of major clinical […]
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B – The inevitability of open access6 September 2012Lewis DW. The inevitability of open access. College & Research Libraries 2012;73(5):493-506 Using methods described by business theorist Clayton Christensen, this study suggests that gold open access, where all the […]
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B – Editorial ethical aspects6 September 2012Masic I. Ethical aspects and dilemmas of preparing, writing and publishing of the scientific papers in the biomedical journals. Acta Informatica Medica 2012;20(3):141-148(doi: 10.5455/aim.2012.20.141.148) In this paper the author discusses […]