Ethical standards adopted by Brazilian journals of medical specialties

Insights from Brazilian Medical Journals

This review covers recent publications on the motor system (orthopedics and movement) in Brazilian journals recently admitted to the ISI-Thomson Journal of Citations Index. Two of these are still pleading for admission into PubMed which will eventually enhance their global visibility. We offer this contribution to experts on these areas who are regular readers of Revista da Associação Médica Br...

Professional and Ethical Standards for the Aas Journals

As implicit conditions for publishing in The Astrophysical Journal and The Astronomical Journal, authors are expected to adhere to basic standards of professional ethics and conduct that are common across all areas of scholarly publishing. In the publication agreement authors warrant that their work is original and has not been published elsewhere. All parties are also expected to conform to co...

Maintaining ethical standards in medical publishing.

All editors of medical journals have a duty to safeguard the integrity of the publishing process and must ensure that the articles that they publish do not infringe accepted ethical standards. It is, of course, the case that journals occasionally receive submissions the ethical standards of which raise concern, and in this respect The Journal of Laryngology & Otology (JLO) is no exception. Devi...

Impact factor, scientific production and quality of Brazilian medical journals.

The consequence of stacking by Brazilian journals

DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20130092 Peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as the Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia (RBHH), aim to divulge the production of the academic community and leading edge research through publications. The editors of the journals that receive these articles are the guardians of the entire evaluation process; it is their obligation to guarantee that the proce...