A team-based Learning (TBL) tutor training workshop on research and publication ethics was offered to 8 faculty members and 3 staff at Hallym University in 2009. To investigate the effect of the workshop and any attitude changes, a questionnaire survey was performed after the 8-hr course. Questions in four categories-general course content, change in attitudes toward research and publication et...

The recent manuscript “Ethics Requirement Score: new tool for evaluating ethics in publications” is very interesting.(1) Santos et al. reported that “although the Impact Factor of foreigner journals was considerably higher than that of the Brazilian publications, the results showed that the Impact Factor has no correlation with the proposed score”.(1) Indeed, the Impact Factor does not reflect ...