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B – Reporting guidelines10 September 2013Grant SP, Mayo-Wilson E, Melendez-Torres GJ, et al. Reporting quality of social and psychological intervention trials: a systematic review of reporting guidelines and trial publications. PLoS One 2013;8(5):e65442(doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065442) Reporting guidelines have improved the quality of trial reports in medicine, yet existing guidelines have important limitations in content, development, and/or dissemination and they may not be fully […]
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B – Science editing10 September 2013Masic I, Kujundzic E. Science editing in biomedicine and humanities. Sarajevo: Avicena, 2013.272 p. The authors of this book focus on the role of academic periodicals as one of the most important medium of communication of ideas and new scientific discoveries. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the field of science writing and editing […]
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B – Ethical authorship in industry publications10 September 2013Woolley KL, Gertel A, Hamilton CW, et al. Time to finger point or fix? An invitation to join ongoing efforts to promote ethical authorship and other good publication practices. The Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2013;47(7-8):1084-1087(doi: 10.1345/aph.1S178) In this commentary, authors present evidence that unethical authorship (eg, guest and ghost authoring) and other publication practices are not restricted to […]
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B – Transparency declaration for research article10 September 2013Altman DG, Moher D. Declaration of transparency for each research article. BMJ 2013;347:f4796(doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4796) Incomplete or misleading publications are indeed a serious problem. Failure to publish the findings of all studies, especially reports of randomised trials, seriously distorts the evidence base for clinical decision making. This editorial is putting forward a new proposal for scientific […]
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B – Honorary authorship in biomedical journals10 September 2013Al-Herz W, Haider H, Alò-Bahhar M, et al. Honorary authorship in biomedical journals: how common is it and why does it exist? Journal of Medical Ethics e-pub 17 August 2013 (doi: 10.1136/medethics-2012-101311) The number of coauthors in the medical literature has increased over the past 50 years as authorship continues to have important academic, social and financial […]
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B – New authorship criterion10 September 2013The Lancet. Authorship and accountability. The Lancet 2013;382(9894):744 (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61815-2) The Lancet, as a member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), fully supports the new (August 2013) ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (previously known as the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical journals […]
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B – Bibliographic databases: critical points10 September 2013Gasparyan AY. Bibliographic databases: some critical points. Journal of Korean Medical Science 2013;28(6):799-800(doi: 10.3346/jkms.2013.28.6.799) The objectivity of communication is increasingly dependent on a comprehensive literature search through online databases. Though most authors and editors are aware of the existence of databases and communication platforms, not all of them are skilled at retrieving essential information and […]
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B – Web science in medicine and healthcare10 September 2013Denecke K, Brooks E. Web science in medicine and healthcare. Methods of Information in Medicine 2013;52(2):148-151 The editorial provides an overview on the landscape of medical social-media (weblogs, forums or social network platforms that deal with health-related issues) and their possibilities in supporting healthcare. It introduces three papers of a Focus Theme considering different aspects of […]
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B – Open access: the true cost of science publishing9 September 2013Van Noorden R. Open access: the true cost of science publishing. Nature 2013;495:426-429(doi: 10.1038/495426a) The article from the Nature Special Future of Publishing points out the different views on the costs of publishing. It discusses the true cost of science publishing and the value publishers add for their money. The variance in prices is leading […]
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B – Conflict of interest in OA publishing9 September 2013Salem DN. Conflict of interest in open-access publishing. The New England Journal of Medicine 2013;369:491(doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1307577) Open access generates numerous legal issues including ownership of intellectual property, licensing, embargo periods, consent, copyright expiration of older literature, “fair use” policies, indexing and archiving, and preservation of works. Among all, the most relevant issue is the rigorous scrutiny of potential […]
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B – Open access: changing global science publishing9 September 2013Gasparyan AY, Ayvazyan L, Kitas GD. Open access: changing global science publishing. Croatian Medical Journal 2013;54:403-406 Open access publishing is becoming a global trend. The article reflects on open access as a strategy of changing the quality of science communication globally. It is gradually changing the way of scientific research, literature research, journal editing, publishing, […]
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B – Medical publication and scientometrics9 September 2013Masic I. Medical publication and scientometrics. Journal of Research in Medical Sciences 2013;18:516-521 Scientific research works need to be carried out according to established rules and guided steps. This paper describes research methods, choice of study design, data collection methods, data analysis, and writing and publication of results. It also answers why scientific research works should […]
