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ETHICAL ISSUES3 August 2006Goldberg David M. 2006. Is scientific publishing a criminal activity?Clinical Biochemistry 39(5):473-481 A published scientific paper is the end-result of a complex interaction between authors, referees, editors and publishers. Each brings to the process a different agenda, and a widely disparate adherence to standards of competence and integrity. This subjective analysis attempts to explain why […]
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SCIENCE30 July 2006O’Grady Laura. 2006. Future directions for depicting credibility in health care web sites. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 75 (1):58-65The purpose of the paper was to determine a theoretical framework by which credibility in health care web sites can be depicted. A comprehensive literature review of published articles, policy papers, and grey literature using relevant […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES30 July 2006Bonetta Laura. 2006 The Aftermath of Scientific Fraud. Cell. 124 (5):873-875When a retraction is published it appears in PubMed linked to the original paper, thereby alerting scientists to the problem, however, retracted papers continue to be cited in the scientific literature at rates comparable to those for nonretracted papers. Being the coauthor of a paper […]
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ECONOMICS AND FUNDING28 July 2006Frank, Martin. 2006.Access to the Scientific Literature – A Difficult Balance. New England Journal of Medicine. 354(15):1552-1555 In reviewing the case for open access, it makes more sense to focus readers’ attention on ways of increasing access, rather than holding to a strict line on whether a journal article, a journal, or a publisher, for […]
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SUBJECT HEADINGS27 July 2006ABOUT EDITORS ECONOMICS AND FUNDING, includingMarketing EDITORIAL PROCESS ETHICAL ISSUES, including Misconduct and fraud INFORMATION LANGUAGE AND WRITING POLITICS OF PUBLISHING PRACTICE OF PUBLISHING, including Models of publishing; Metadata; Peer review PUBLISHING SCIENCE
