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Like all articles in BMC journals, this peer-reviewed article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in BMC journals are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in BMC journals or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.bio...

Like all articles in BMC journals, this peer-reviewed article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in BMC journals are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in BMC journals or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.bio...

BACKGROUND It is not clear which research misconduct policies are adopted by biomedical journals. This study assessed the prevalence and content policies of the most influential biomedical journals on misconduct and procedures for handling and responding to allegations of misconduct. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of misconduct policies of 399 high-impact biomedical journals in ...

Jan Carlo Barca and Y. Ahmet Sekercioglu Robotica / Volume 31 / Issue 03 / May 2013, pp 345 ­ 359 DOI: 10.1017/S026357471200032X, Published online: 03 July 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S026357471200032X How to cite this article: Jan Carlo Barca and Y. Ahmet Sekercioglu (2013). Swarm robotics reviewed. Robotica, 31, pp 345­359 doi:10.1017/ S026357471200032X R...

As the Editors of leading international biomedical informatics journals, the authors report on a recent pattern of improper manuscript submissions to journals in our field. As a guide for future authors, we describe ethical and pragmatic issues related to submitting work for peer-reviewed journal publication. We propose a coordinated approach to the problem that our respective journals will fol...

BACKGROUND Oral and poster presentations at annual national meetings of the Romanian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (RSGH) provide a forum for education, communication and discussion of new research. However, for the wide-spread dissemination of the new research work, each presentation should be subsequently published as a full-text article in peer-reviewed, indexed journals. AIM ...

BACKGROUND Research projects are presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH). It is unknown how many achieve publication in peer-reviewed journals. We sought to determine current rates of publication of podium and poster presentations. METHODS All ASSH podium and poster presentations from 2000 to 2005 were reviewed, and an Internet-based search usin...

Over the past two decades, the Internet has emerged as a powerful tool for the dissemination of medical knowledge. The routine online publication of peer-reviewed journals and the standardisation of the portable document format (.pdf) marked a coming of age for Internet technology allowing readers, authors and editors to quickly access articles old and new and share them efficiently. Although t...