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B – Publication guidelines for industry medical research30 April 2014Wager E, Woolley K, Adshead V, et al. Awareness and enforcement of guidelines for publishing industry-sponsored medical research among publication professionals: the Global Publication Survey. BMJ Open 2014;4:e004780(doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004780) The authors published the results from the Global Publication Survey, a large-scale, international survey to obtain information about the ways in which medical writers and other […]
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B – Guidance on research integrity in Europe1 April 2014Godecharle S, Nemery B, Dierickx K. Guidance on research integrity: no union in Europe. The Lancet 2013;381(9872):1097-1098(doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60759-X) The authors retrieved and analysed 49 national guidelines addressing research misconduct and promoting scientific integrity, published by 19 European countries. They found a highly heterogenous picture within and between European countries resulting in a confusing situation. In addition, they […]
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B – Why growing retractions are a good sign1 April 2014Fanelli D. Why growing retractions are (mostly) a good sign. PLoS Medicine 2013;10(12):e1001563 (doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001563) The number of journals issuing retractions has grown dramatically in recent years, but the number of retractions per retracting-journal has not increased. Growing numbers of retractions are most plausibly a sign that researchers and journal editors are getting better at identifying […]
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B – Cheating in publications1 April 2014Khan ZH. Cheating in publications – Self or others? Acta Medica Iranica 2014;52(1):1-2 Also using plagiarism, duplicate (redundant) or piecemeal publications, some authors manage to safely escape the barriers and filters the editorial staff of journals and get their papers published. It appears that cross check does little to address plagiarism of ideas.To bring an end to […]
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B – How to be a top journal26 March 2014Huh S. The new era of Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility: what should be prepared to be a top journal in the category of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility 2013;19(4):419-421(doi: 10.5056/jnm.2013.19.4.419) Starting from the experience of the Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, the author explains what the editors of a journal indexed in the […]
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B – Conflict of interest disclosure form26 March 2014Baethge C. The effect of a conflict of interest disclosure form using closed questions on the number of positive conflicts of interest declared – a controlled study. PeerJ 2013;1:e128. (doi: 10.7717/peerj.128) Conflicts of interest (COI) are often not declared completely and accurately. One of several possible reasons for deficient COI declarations is the lack […]
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B – The first scientific journal26 March 2014Singleton A. The first scientific journal. Learned Publishing 2014;27(1):2-4(doi: 10.1087/2014101) On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the publication of the first scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Phil Trans), the editor of Learned Publishing took a close look at the early issues of this journal to see how much has changed in journal publishing […]
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B – Conflicts of interest in high-impact biomedical journals26 March 2014Bosch X, Pericas JM, Hernández C, et al. Financial, nonfinancial and editors’ conflicts of interest in high-impact biomedical journals. European Journal of Clinical Investigation 2013;43(7):660-667(doi: 10.1111/eci.2013.43.issue-7/issuetoc) This study aimed to assess financial, nonfinancial and editors’ conflicts of interest (COI) disclosure policies among high-impact biomedical journals. The authors conducted a cross-sectional study of 399 journals and collected […]
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B – Online-to-print delays and impact factor26 March 2014Tort ABL, Targino ZH, Amaral OB. Rising publication delays inflate journal impact factors. PLoS ONE 2012;7(2):e53374(doi: 10.1371/journale.pone.0053374) In this study the authors used publication records of neuroscience journals to analyze the evolution of publication delay over the last decade, and to study whether this phenomenon can alter journal impact factors. They showed that online-to-print lags […]
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B – New ideas in science25 March 2014Maqbool F, Bahadar H, Abdollahi M. Science for the benefit of all; the way from idea to product. Journal of Medical Hypotheses and Ideas epub February 2014(doi: 10.1016/j.jmhi.2014.02.002) Mutual coordination between academia and industries is extremely important for the growth of science. The spread of ideas is only possible with publication and distribution of information […]
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B – Conflicts of interest in biomedical publications25 March 2014Gasparyan AY, Ayvazyan L, NAkazhanov NA, et al. Conflicts of interest in biomedical publications: considerations for authors, peer reviewers, and editors. Croatian Medical Journal 2013;54:600-608(doi: 10.3325/cmj.2013.54.600) This article overviews evidence on common instances of conflict of interest (COI) in biomedical publications. Financial relationships of research institutions and their investigators is the most conspicuous source of […]
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B – Salami publication25 March 2014Šupak Smolčić V. Salami publication: definitions and examples. Biochemia Medica 2013;23(3):237-141(doi: 10.11613/BM.2013.030) Salami publication is a distinct form of redundant publication that is characterized by similarity of hypothesis, methodology or results but not text similarity. There is no software application or algorithm for its detection, and therefore it presents a serious threat to publication ethics. This […]
