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N – Multilingual WorldwideScience.org9 September 2010The beta version of Multilingual WorldWideScience.org was launched in June in Helsinki, Finland, at the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) annual conference. It now provides the first-ever […]
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N – Research integrity guidelines9 September 2010While acknowledging national and cultural differences, delegates at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity concluded that all scientists share a set of values that can serve as the foundation […]
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B – Authors’ responses to post-publication feedback8 September 2010Gøtzsche PC, Delamothe T, Godlee F, et al. Adequacy of authors’ replies to criticism raised in electronic letters to the editor: cohort study. BMJ 2010;341:c3926. http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c3926.full Letters to the editor […]
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B – Usage of e-Journals8 September 2010Nicholas D, Williams P, Rowlands I, et al. Researchers’ e-journal use and information seeking behaviour. Journal of Information Science 2010;36:494-516. http://jis.sagepub.com/content/36/4/494 Academic journals are vital to researchers in all academic […]
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B – Reporting bias in medicine8 September 2010McGauran N, Wieseler B, Kreis J, et al. Reporting bias in medical research – a narrative review. Trials 2010;11:37. http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/11/1/37 Reporting bias is widespread in the medical literature. Prospective registration […]
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B – Social relationships are key to health8 September 2010The PLoS Medicine Editors. Social relationships are key to health, and to health policy. PloS Med 2010;7(8):e1000334(doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000334) Evidence from observational studies has documented the association between social relationships and […]
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B – The growth rate of scientific publication and the decline in SCI coverage8 September 2010Larsen PO, von Ins M. The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index. Scientometrics 2010;84(3).575:603(doi: 10.1007/s11192-010-0202-z) The growth rate of scientific […]
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B – A terminology quality improvement model8 September 2010Kim TY, Coenen A, Hardiker n. A quality improvement model for health care terminologies. J Biomed Inform 2010 Aug 17(doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.08.006) Purpose of this paper is to introduce a terminology […]
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B – How to boost a paper’s citations3 September 2010Corbyn Z. An easy way to boost a paper’s citations. Nature 13 August 2010(doi: 10.1038/news.2010.406) A research conducted by Gregory Webster, a psychologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville […]
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B – Writing a structured abstract for the thesis3 September 2010Hartley J. Writing a structured abstract for the thesis. Psychology Teaching Review 2010;16(1):98-100 An analysis of sources containing advices on how to write abstracts for the PhD. Advices could not […]
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N – MedChemComm launches22 July 2010The UK Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC) publishing division has launched a new, fully open-access journal. MedChemComm is a peer-reviewed journal for the rapid publication of medicinal chemistry research. Issue […]
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B – Gender bias in medical publication22 July 2010Heckenberg A, Druml C. Gender aspects in medical publication – the Wiener klinische Wochenschrift. Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 2010;122:141-145. Worldwide, about 50% of students starting medical school are female but a […]
