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B – Upgrading instructions for authors24 June 2014Gasparyan AY, Ayvazyan L, Gorin SV, et al. Upgrading instructions for authors of scholarly journals. Croatian Medical Journal 2014;55:271-280(doi: 10.3325/cmj.2014.55.271)Journal instructions are important and need to be properly structured, linked to the available guidelines from editorial associations, and regularly revised and enforced to avoid unethical and erroneous publications. They should inform authors about the journal’s […]
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B – Review of Wikipedia citations in health science literature24 June 2014Bould MD. Hladkowicz ES, Pigford AE, et al. References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature. BMJ 2014;348:g1585(doi: 10.1136/bmj.g1585) An increasing number of peer reviewed academic papers in health sciences are citing Wikipedia. This article evaluates the prevalence of Wikipedia citations in indexed health science journals, identify the […]
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B – Citation increments between collaborating countries24 June 2014Lancho-Barrantes BS, Guerrero-Bote VP, de Moya-Anegon F. Citation increments between collaborating countries. Scientometrics 2013;94(3):817-831(doi: 10.1007/s11192-012-0797-3)International collaboration enhances citation impact. Collaborating with a country increments the citations received from it. The authors observed a certain tendency for these increments to be lower in countries with greater impacts, and differences in the behaviour of the countries between […]
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B – Internet publicity of data problems and corrective actions24 June 2014Brookes PS. Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action. PeerJ 2014;2:e313(doi: 10.7717/peerj.313) Data integrity is a common discussion topic, and it is widely assumed that publicity surrounding such matters accelerates correction of the scientific record. This study aims to verify whether such public discussion of data integrity has […]
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B – Ethics of scholarly publishing24 June 2014Amos KA. The ethics of scholarly publishing: exploring differences in plagiarism and duplicate publication across nations. Journal of the Medical Library Association 2014;102(2):87-91(doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.102.2.005) This study explored national differences in plagiarism and duplicate publication in retracted biomedical literature. The national affiliations of authors and reasons for retraction of papers accessible through PubMed that were published […]
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B – Privacy protectionism and health information24 June 2014Allen J, Holman CD, Meslin EM, et al. Privacy protectionism and health information: is there any redress for harms to health? Journal of Law and Medicine 2013;21(2):473-485 Health information collected by governments can be a valuable resource for researchers seeking to improve diagnostics, treatments and public health outcomes. This article examines the legal, ethical and […]
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B – Science journalism24 June 2014Watts S. Society needs more than wonder to respect science. Nature 2014;508(7495):151(doi:10.1038/508151a) According to the author, there is a fundamental difference between science communication and science journalism: researchers are well placed to explain concepts, but journalists will bring the critical scrutiny needed to integrate science in society. Science journalism should weigh up the values and […]
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B – Editorial research and publication process24 June 2014Marušić A, Malički M, von Elm E. Editorial research and the publication process in biomedicine and health: Report from the Esteve Foundation Discussion Group, December 2012. Biochemia Medica 2014;24(2):211-216(doi: 10.11613/BM.2014.023) The article presents results from a discussion group of editors and experts organized by the Esteve Foundation. They included findings of past editorial research, discussed the lack […]
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B – Citation-related characteristics in scientific journals30 May 2014Sangwal K. Some citation-related characteristics of scientific journals published in individual countries. Scientometrics 2013;97:719-741(doi: 10.1007/s11192-013-1053-1) This bibliometric study on relationships between publication language, impact factors and self-citations of journals published in individual countries, eight from Europe and one from South America (Brazil) found that: English-language journals, as a rule, have higher impact factors than non-English-language […]
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B – Impact of article language in medical journals30 May 2014Diekhoff T, Schlattmann P, Dewey M. Impact of article language in multi-language medical journals – a bibliometric analysis of self-citations and impact factor. PLoS One 2013;8(10):e76816(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076816) This article analyzed the influence of English-language articles in multi-language medical journals. The findings suggested that a larger share of English articles in multi-language medical journals is associated with […]
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B – Open access respiratory journals30 May 2014Dai N, Xu D, Zhong X, et al. Publishing in open access era: focus on respiratory journals. Journal of Thoracic Disease 2014;6(5):564-5677.(doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.03.18) Open access (OA) journals benefit researchers and the general public by promoting visibility, sharing and communicating. Non-mainstream journals should turn the challenge of OA into opportunity of presenting best research articles to […]
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B – How to read health care news stories30 May 2014Schwitzer G. A guide to reading health care news stories. JAMA Internal Medicine e-pub May 05, 2014(doi: 10.10001/jamainternmed.2014.1359) A team of reviewers from HealthNewsReview.org. evaluated the reporting by US news organizations on new medical treatments, tests, products, and procedures. They graded most stories unsatisfactory on 5 of 10 review criteria: costs, benefits, harms, quality of […]
