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EDITORIAL PROCESS6 February 2007Raja UY, Cooper JG. 2006. How accurate are the references in Emergency Medical Journal? Emergency Medical Journal. 23(8):625-626. The objective of this article was to access the accuracy of references in Emergency Medicine Journal during 2003. Out of the 2561 citations checked they found 19% contained minor errors and in 8% the errors were classed […]
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Is there science beyond English?4 February 2007Meneghini R, Packer AL . 2007. Is there science beyond English? Initiatives to increase the quality and visibility of non-English publications might help to break down language barriers in scientific communication. EMBO reports 8, 2, 112–116 doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7400906Is http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v8/n2/full/7400906.html Scientists must master English to obtain international recognition and to access relevant publications. English has become a […]
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How Web 2.0 is changing medicine25 January 2007EditorialsBMJ 2006;333:1283-1284 (23 December)doi:10.1136/bmj.39062.555405.80 Web 2.0 is a difficult term to define. What seems clear is that it brings people together in a more dynamic, interactive space. This new generation of internet services and devices—often referred to as social software—can be leveraged to enrich our web experience, as information is continually requested, consumed, and reinterpreted. […]
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Milestones on the long road to knowledge25 January 2007Godlee F. 2007. Milestones on the long road to knowledge. BMJdoi:10.1136/bmj.39062.570856.94 Seeking a way to mark the launch of the new BMJ, the editors hit on the idea of looking back at the most important medical milestones since the forerunner of the BMJ was first published in 1840. They asked readers to nominate milestones and […]
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Analysis of the most highly cited articles from the 50-year history of CCA.15 January 2007Csako G. 2007. Analysis of the most highly cited articles from the 50-year history of CCA. Clinica Chimica Acta. 375(1-2):43-48. This article describes the analysis of the most highly cited articles from CCA’s history. Lists are all based on the ISI/Thomson Scientific database and the country of origin identified by a PubMed search. A significant […]
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The future of Physics publishing9 January 2007Physics World 2007. (20) 1http://physicsweb.org/articles/world Physicists need to keep abreast of the latest changes in science publishing.The January issue of Physics World (Vol. 20, No.1, 2007) has three papers in its “Comment ” section introducing an issue featuring developments in physics publishing, and also has a whole section entitled “The future of physics publishing” (p. […]
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Concentration of the Most-Cited Papers in the Scientific Literature5 January 2007Ioannidis JPA. 2006. Concentration of the Most-Cited Papers in the Scientific Literature: Analysis of Journal Ecosystems. PLoS ONE. 2006; 1(1): e5. Published online 2006 December 20.doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000005. Despite a plethora of available journals, the most influential papers are extremely concentrated in few journals, especially in fields with high citation density. Existing multidisciplinary journals publish selectively […]
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EDITORIAL PROCESS3 January 2007The PLoS Medicine Editors, Krishna S. 2006. Drug Development Papers in PLoS Medicine: How We Try to Spot a Winner. PLoS Med 3(12): e547DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030547 Editors ask several general questions about any submitted paper: how important is the research question (both globally and in relation to the journal’s audience); what is the likelihood of the […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES2 January 2007Boyd EA, Bero LA. 2006. Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 4. Managing conflicts of interests.Health Res Policy Syst. 4: 16 The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. Literature on conflicts […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES23 December 2006Grindlinger B. 2006. Can I quote you on that? J Clin Invest. November 1; 116(11): 2832.doi: 10.1172/JCI30295. Research findings can be distorted in the lay press. Journalists and scientists must share the responsibilities of better explaining and interpreting science in an accessible and meaningful context for nonspecialist readers. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17080184
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PUBLISHING19 December 2006M Nyström, M Merkel, L Ahrenberg , P Zweigenbaum, H Petersson, H Åhlfeldt. 2006 Creating a medical English-Swedish dictionary using interactive word alignment BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 6:35 This article reports a novel method for translating medical dictionaries by combining electronic word extraction and automated alignment. This method pernmits to rapidly generate a […]
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ECONOMICS AND FUNDING14 December 2006HM Treasury, 2006. Investing in Britain’s potential: Building our long-term future, Cm 6984. The mechanism for allocating science funding in the UK is to move away from peer review to a measure based on research income, postgraduate research student data and bibliometrics. For other disciplines, including mathematics and statistics, funding is going to be based […]
