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B – UNESCO guidelines on open access3 May 2012Swan A. Policy guidelines for the development and promotion of open access. UNESCO: Open Guidelines Series;2012The objective of this publication is to promote open access (OA) in UNESCO Member States by facilitating understanding of all relevant issues related to OA. It will serve the needs of OA policy development at the government, institutional and funding […]
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B – Review about authorship issues20 April 2012Marušić A, Bošnjak L, Jerončić A. A systematic review of research on the meaning, ethics and practices of authorship across scholarly disciplines. PLoS ONE 2011;6(9):e23477(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023477)This systematic review has the purpose to evaluate evidence about authorship issues and provide synthesis of research on authorship across all scholarly disciplines. It reviewed 123 articles reporting results from 118 studies. Four […]
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B – Social awareness tools for science research6 April 2012McMahon TM, Powell JE, Hopkins M, et al. Social awareness tools for science research. D-Lib Magazine 2012;18(3/4)(doi: 10.1045/march2012-mcmahon) Thi article discusses social awareness tools developed specifically for science researchers that facilitate collaboration, help manage article references, and offer options for presenting findings in new ways. The following tools are described: VIVO and Profiles, ScienceSifter, Mendeley, […]
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B – Science growth in Iran6 April 2012Kharabaf S, Abdollahi M. Science growth in Iran over the past 35 years. Journal of Research in Medical Sciences 2012;17(3) This study was carried out to evaluate activities in different scientific fields in Iran compared to other countries over the past 35 years. A scientometric analysis of relevant databases was then conducted. Results showed a […]
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B – Post-dating journal articles and citation counting23 March 2012Krell FT. Academic publishers’ time-loop: another mechanism to manipulate impact factors? Learned Publishing 2012;25(2):153-154(doi: 10.1087/20120210) According to the author, all major scientific publishers state false publication dates. Why not give the correct publication dates? For a journal issue published, for example, in December 2011, but dated January 2012, the citation counting for the Impact Factor […]
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B – Tracking replications as method of post-publication evaluation21 March 2012Hartshorne JK, Schachner A. Tracking replicability as a method of post-publication open evaluation. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 2012;6:8(doi: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00008) To increase the reliability and accuracy of published articles, the authors propose tracking replications of published findings as a means of post-publication evaluation, both to help researchers identify reliable findings, and to incentivize the publication of […]
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B – Chinese medical ethics21 March 2012Li EC, Du P, Ji KZ, et al. Chinese ethics review system and Chinese medicine ethical review: past, present, and future. Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine 2011;17(11):867-872 The Chinese medical ethics committee and the ethical review system have recently made substantial achievements, as they: enabled the institutionalization of medical ethics, carried out the ethics review […]
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B – Open access economical model21 March 2012Leptin M. Open access-pass the buck. Science 2012;335(6074):1279(doi: 10.1126/science.1220395) Most scientists support the open access publishing model, but there is still much debate on the economics and potential consequences of open access among researchers, publishers, academics, funding agencies, and governments. Publishing costs money and open access is not free. Moving from subscription-based to author-pays economics […]
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B – Women underrepresented on editorial boards of top-ranked medical journals21 March 2012Amrein K, Langmann A, Fahrleitner-Pammer A, et al. Women underrepresented on editorial boards of 60 major medical journals. Gender Medicine 2011;8(6):377-387(doi: 10.1016/j.genm.2011.10.007) Significant gender disparity is still present at many levels of academic medicine. Results from a sample analysis of 60 leading medical journals in different medical specialties, published in 2011, showed that women are […]
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B – Publication of NIH funded clinical trials21 March 2012Ross JS, Tse T, Zarin DA et al. Publication of NIH funded trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov: cross sectional analysis. British Medical Journal 2012;344:d7292 The US FDA Amendment Act of 2007 requires that clinical trials subject to regulation be registered and reported in ClinicalTrials.gov, and this is – according to the ICMJE – a requisite for […]
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B – Gender-sensitive reporting in medical research16 March 2012Heidari S, Abdool Karim Q, Auerbach JD, et al. Gender-sensitive reporting in medical research. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2012;15(11)(doi: 10.1186/1758-2652-15-11) Women are still underrepresented in clinical trials, and even in studies in which both men and women participate, systematic analysis of data to identify potential sex-based differences is lacking. This article suggests important […]
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B – How experienced examiners assess research theses16 March 2012Mullins G, Kiley M. “It’s a PhD, not a Nobel Prize”: how experienced examiners assess research theses. Studies in Higher Education 2002;27(4):369-386(doi: 10.1080/0307507022000011507) This 2002 article reports on a study of the examination processes for postgraduate research theses that 30 Australian experienced examiners went through, and the judgements they made before writing their reports. The […]
