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B . Retractions in the medical literature16 February 2012Steen RG. Retractions in the medical literature: how many patients are put at risk by flawed research? Journal of Medical Ethics 2011;37(11):688-692(doi: 10.1136/jme.2011.043133) This article reports evidence that a large […]
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B – The gender gap in authorship16 February 2012Shields L, Hall J, Mamun AA. The “gender gap” in authorship in nursing literature. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2011;104(11):457-464(doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2011.110015) There is gender bias in authorship in […]
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B – Gap in access to scholarly content16 February 2012Research Information Network (RIN), Publishing Research Consortium (PRC), Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Access to scholarly content: gaps and barriers. December 2011 This report investigates and quantifies the extent to […]
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B – The SOAP Project16 February 2012Dallmeier-Tiessen S, Darby R, Goerner B, et al. Open access journals – what publishers offer, what researchers want. Information Services & Uses 2011;31:85-91(doi: 10.3233/ISU-2011-0624) This article describes the SOAP (Study […]
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B – Reporting guidelines for survey research15 February 2012Bennett C, Khangura S, Brehaut JC, et al. Reporting guidelines for survey research: an analysis of published guidance and reporting practices. PloS Medicine 2011;8(8):e1001069(doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001069) The authors identified any previous […]
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B – Reporting guidelines for health research15 February 2012Moher D, Weeks L, Ocampo M, et al. Describing reporting guidelines for health research: a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2011;64(7):718-742(doi: 10.1016/j.clinepi.2010.09.013) This review article describes the process of […]
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B – Why science struggles to correct its mistakes14 February 2012Zimmer C. It’s science, but not necessarily right. The New York Times June 25, 2011 As a series of controversies have recently demonstrated, science fixes its mistakes not so rapidly […]
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B – Missing clinical trial data14 February 2012Lehman R, Loder E. Missing clinical trial data. British Medical Journal 2012;344:d8158(doi: 10.1136/bmj.d8158) A large proportion of evidence from human trials is unreported, and much of what is reported is […]
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B – Copyright of clinical tools14 February 2012Newman JC, Feldman R. Copyright and open access at the bedside. The New England Journal of Medicine 2011;365:2447-2449 What can researchers do to ensure that other colleagues can use clinician […]
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B – Peerage of Science: a publishing revolution?14 February 2012Fowler M. Peerage of Science: a publishing revolution? Theoretically Speaking Nature.com blog Jan 16, 2012 The increasing number of scientists is coupled with a pressure to publish more (often smaller […]
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B – Sharing research data to improve public health14 February 2012Walport M, Brest P. Sharing research data to improve public health. The Lancet 2011;337(9765):537-539(doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)62234-9) A group of major international funders of public health research have committed to work together […]
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B – Goodbye PubMed, hello raw data14 February 2012Godlee F. Goodbye PubMed, hello raw data. British Medical Journal 2011;342:d212(doi: 10.1136/bmj.d212) According to the Cochrane team, reviewers must have access to all unpublished data, not only from unpublished trials […]