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B – The role of a publications officer20 December 2016Cobey KD, Galipeau J, Shamseer L, et al. Report on a pilot project to introduce a publications officer. CMAJ 2016;188(12):E279-80.(doi: 10.1503/cmaj.151340) The primary objective of a publications officer should be to provide institutional guidance and support to researchers and trainees on how to prepare manuscripts for journal submission as well as advice on publication topics […]
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B – Articles on overuse of medical care20 December 2016Morgan DJ, Dhruva SS, Wright SM, et al. 2016 Update on medical overuse: a systematic review. JAMA Internal Medicine 2016;176(11):1687-92(doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5381) Overuse of medical care is an increasingly recognized problem in clinical medicine. This review promotes reflection on the top 10 original research articles published in 2015 that are most likely to reduce overuse of […]
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B – Citation analysis20 December 2016Foz CW, Paine CET, Sauterey B. Citations increase with manuscript length, author number, and references cited in ecology journals. Ecology and Evolution 2016;1-10(doi: 10.1002/ece3.2505) The authors examined the relationship between citations received and manuscript length, number of authors, and number of references cited for papers published in 32 ecology journals between 2009 and 2012. They found that […]
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Changes at eLife22 October 2016eLife, the open-access journal supported by three major research funders (elifesciences.org), has announced that it will start charging from 2017. Since its launch in 2012, the journal has had no charges, supported entirely by grants from the funders. The ‘publication fee’ will be $2500. The move is explained in an editorial in the journal, and […]
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N – Nature data policy22 October 2016From September 2016, all research papers accepted for publication in Nature and 12 other Nature journals will have to include a statement on access to the study’s data. e policy, announced in an editorial in Nature will require a statement reporting the availability of the “minimal data set necessary to interpret, replicate and build on […]
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B – Challenges in altmetrics6 October 2016Haustein, S. Grand challenges in altmetrics: heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies. Scientometrics 2016;108(1):413-423 (doi: 10.1007/s11192-016-1910-9) This paper focuses on the current challenges for altmetrics. Heterogeneity, data quality and particular dependencies are identified as the three major issues and discussed in detail with an emphasis on past developments in bibliometrics. The heterogeneity of altmetrics reflects the […]
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B – OA publication fees in Germany6 October 2016Jahn N, Tullney M. A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany. PeerJ 2016;4:e2323(doi: 10.7717/peerj.2323) This study examines how much German universities and research organisations spent on open access publication fees. According to self-reported cost data from the Open APC initiative, this type of support has grown over the years. Comparing […]
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B – Truth in science publishing5 October 2016Südhof TC. Truth in science publishing: a personal perspective. PLoS Biology 2016;14(8):e1002547(doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002547)Emerging flaws in the integrity of the peer review system are largely responsible for the validity of published scientific results.. Distortions in peer review are driven by economic forces and enabled by a lack of accountability of journals, editors, and authors. One approach […]
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B – A COPE perspective on publishing ethical issues5 October 2016Pierson CA. Avoiding ethics pitfalls in publishing: a perspective from COPE. Oral Diseases 2016 July 12(doi: 10.1111/odi.12539)Throughout its history, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has provided a forum for discussion about ethical issues related to all aspects of scholarly publishing and developed resources to assist those who write, review, and edit scholarly work. This […]
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B – Authorship of clinical trial documents5 October 2016Billiones R. Authorship of clinical trial documents. Medical Writing 2016;25(1):33-35 Authorship of clinical trial documents such as clinical study protocols, clinical study reports, investigator’s brochures and inform ed consent forms has not yet been given much attention. This article looks at the common practices of authorship attribution and signing off on these documents and examines the […]
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B – Researchers under cyber attacks5 October 2016Dadkhah M, Borchardt G, Maliszewski T. Fraud in academic publishing: researchers under cyber attacks. The American Journal of Medicine 2016(doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.08.030) Day by day, researchers receive new suspicious emails in their inboxes. In this short communication the authors review current cyber threats in academic publishing and try to present general guidelines for authors.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002934316309172
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B – Ethical medical communications5 October 2016Smalley S. Staying ahead of the game in the changing arena of ethical medical communications – Viewpoint of a freelance medical writer. Medical Writing 2016;25(2):13-17 Good publication practices as well as guidelines, regulations, codes of practice, and other guidelines governing pharmaceutical-HCP interactions and promotion of medicines play an important role in professional and ethical medical […]
