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Scientific journals have a central place in protecting research integrity because published articles are the most visible documentation of research. We used SWOT analysis to audit (S)trengths and (W)eaknesses as internal and (O)pportunities and (T)hreats as external factors affecting journals' responsibility in addressing research integrity issues. Strengths include editorial independence, auth...

The Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ), as a small journal that is not part of any publishing group faces serious challenges to prosper in a multitude of diverse biomedical journals. In such a complex situation, adaptations are always necessary. They include changing the editorial policy, embracing new ideas, and introducing new members to the Managing Team. Besides selecting the right articles, ex...

INTRODUCTION There are several vested interest lies on research publication hence the editorial policy is the sole important factor to control and regulate ethical publications in medical sciences especially on 'conflict of interest' issue. The study was aimed to assess on awareness of 'conflict of interest' issue in medical research and publication among the editorial staff, peer reviewers and a...

BACKGROUND Busy clinicians need easy access to evidence-based information to inform their clinical practice. Publishers and organizations have designed specific tools to meet doctors' needs at the point of care. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe online point-of-care summaries and evaluate their breadth, content development, and editorial policy against their claims of being "evi...

In 2005, we performed the largest survey on clinical trials of biotherapies for all solid tumors and found indirect evidence of a publication bias: editors of medical journals were more prone to publish positive results independently from the quality of the studies. We collected data from 2003 to 2015 in 487 studies, and the publication bias previously described was not found in the years betwe...

Does advertising compromise the issue of peer review audits of journals? In a recent New York 7hrres article, 1 George D. Lundberg, editor of JAJL4-l?re Journal of the American Medical Association (JAM4), was reported to be reluctant to provide information on the ~rformance of peer review. Other journal editors interviewed for the limes article, however, look more favorably on the idea of audit...

EDITOR: Mark Abramowicz, M.D. DEPUTY EDITOR: Gianna Zuccotti, M.D., M.P.H., Weill Medical College of Cornell University CONSULTING EDITOR: Martin A. Rizack, M.D., Ph.D., Rockefeller University CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Philip D. Hansten, Pharm.D., University of Washington ADVISORY BOARD: Jules Hirsch, M.D., Rockefeller University; James D. Kenney, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine; Gerald L. ...

Research and ethics are inseparable. Based on abhorrent research abuses under the cloak of scientific enquiry, development of the process for the ethical overview of research on/with humans was undertaken. By the end of the twentieth century, sufficient and extensive local and international principles, guidelines, legislations, and treaties about research on humans were in place, with all human...

In June 2015, invitations were sent by email to 151 APAME journals to participate in an online survey with an objective of gaining insight into the common publication misconduct encountered by APAME editors. The survey, conducted through SurveyMonkey over a 20-day-period, comprised 10 questions with expansions to allow anecdotes limited to 400 characters, estimated to take less than 10 minutes ...