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B – Raw data availability from clinical trials13 December 2013Doshi P, Goodman SN, Ioannidis JPA. Raw data from clinical trials: within reach? Trends in Pharmacological Sciences 2013;34(12):645-647(doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2013.10.006) Many scientific disciplines have accepted that raw data, protocols, and analysis codes should be widely available. Making raw data from clinical trials widely publically available should reduce selective reporting biases and enhance the reproducibility of and […]
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Science Editors’ Handbook is ATG Book of the Week30 November 2013In November 2013, the 2nd Edition of the Science Editors’ Handbook, published in September 2013 was nominated the Against the Grain Book of the Week.
Against the Grain is a unique collection of reports on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals.
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B – BMJ Case reports25 November 2013Dobbins M. BMJ Case Reports. Journal of the Medical Library Association 2013;101(1):80(doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.101.1.016)BMJ Case Reports is an electronic journal that provides a collection of peer-reviewed case reports in all disciplines for health care professionals and researchers. Cases come from 70 countries and articles cover both common and rare diseases. The resources available through this journals are […]
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B – Defending against plagiarism25 November 2013Bailey J. Defending against plagiarism. The Scientist Magazine June 1, 2013 Retractions in academic publishing have skyrocketed-up 10-fold in the past three decades, with plagiarism and duplication at the root of about 25% of those retractions. Why doesn’t every organization (government agency, research department, or academic publisher) employ active defenses against plagiarism? There is no reason […]
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B – Internationalization of Chinese STM journals25 November 2013Xu L, Fang Q. Internationalization of Chinese STM journal publishing. Publishing Research Quarterly 2013;29(2):190-196(doi: 10.1007/s12109-013-9309-4) Over the past two decades, China has witnessed an international development of its scientific, technological and medical (STM) journals. This has enhanced journals’ editorial forces, it has established a quality-control mechanism centered around peer reviews, and it has internationalized both […]
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B – National vs international journals25 November 2013Lakhotia SC. “National” versus “international” journals. Current Science 2013;105(3):287-288 According to the author, the existing Indian classification into “national” and “international” journals is misleading as it presupposes that the former group of journals publishes articles only from authors in India, and that those articles are not so good as those published in “international” journals. This […]
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B – Is there an apartheid in science publishing?11 September 2013Habibzadeh F. Is there an apartheid in science publishing? The Lancet 2013;382(9889):310(doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61636-0) On April 30, 2013, Elsevier asked its US editors and reviewers not to handle manuscripts with any Iranian co-authors employed by the Government of Iran. This decision was taken after a recent policy adopted on the basis of the sanctions imposed by the […]
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B – Journal rank and study impact11 September 2013Brembs B, Button K, Munafò M. Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2013;7:291(doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291) So far, contributions to the debate concerning the limitations of journal rank as a scientific impact assessment tool have either lacked data, or relied on only a few studies. In this review, authors present the most […]
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B – Journal’s publisher country and citation rates11 September 2013Schubert T, Michels C. Placing articles in the large publisher nations: is there a “free lunch” in terms of higher impact? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2013;64: 596–611(doi: 10.1002/asi.22759) This paper deals with the role of a journal’s publisher country in determining the expected citation rates of the articles published […]
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B – Normalization of citation impact11 September 2013Bornmann L, Marx W, Barth A. The normalization of citation counts based on classification systems. Publications 2013;1(2):78-86(doi: 10.3390/publications1020078) This study describes an ideal solution for the normalization of citation impact: in a first step, the reference set for the publication in question is collated by means of a classification scheme, where every publication is associated with […]
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B – Data transparency in medical communication10 September 2013Kermani F, Fürst W, Billiones R. Potential implications of wider data transparency in medical communications. Medical Writing 2013;22(2):128-130(doi: 10.1179/2047480613Z.000000000113) The current medical communication environment is characterised by growing calls for increased data transparency and for improvement of access to unpublished data results. There are ongoing concerns about the selective publication of trial results and the potential […]
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B – Older people in clinical research10 September 2013McMurdo M. Clinical research must include more older people. BMJ 2013;346:f3899(doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3899) Why are the people who take part in clinical research systematically different from those seen in practice? For years older people are systematically excluded from clinical research, with those older than 85 years particularly under-studied. Most research is still done on younger adults, often […]
