Publication of a Scientific Article: What Authors Need to Know

Predatory publishing: what authors, reviewers, and editors need to know.

The expansion of the Internet and the increasing pressure to provide new scientific content to the public as quickly as possible have led to rapid changes in the publishing industry. Recently, new publishing models have arisen, such as open access (content available to readers at no charge), hybrid (some combination of print and online content delivery), and early online access to print journal...

What Neurosurgeons Need to Know

“The results of the three parts of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) were published within the 18 months.” In November 2006, the reports of the randomized, controlled trial (RCT) and observational cohort study of herniated lumbar disc (HLD) were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.8,9 In May 2007, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results...

What do we know? What do we need to know?

What We Know and What We Need to Know

Drawing on recent literature, the paper argues that institutions and political economy factors hold the key to understanding why some countries have succeeded in developing their financial systems while others have not. The paper also reviews new evidence which suggests that institutional quality may influence the effectiveness of financial development in delivering economic growth. These new f...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): What we need to know (In Press)