Authorship is a central element of scientific research carrying a variety of rewards and responsibilities, and while various guidelines exist, actual author contributions are often ambiguous. Inconsistent or limited contributions threaten to devalue authorship as intellectual currency and diminish authors' responsibility for published content. Researchers have assessed author contributions in t...

i was glancing at the proceedings of the 3rd national meeting of iranian association of medical editors of december 2010, few points took my attention worth mentioning. of the 173 medical science journals of iran only 54 are registered in the scopus database.1   at this gathering all the talks had been focused on the improvement of the quality and impact factors (if) which is the score that the...

Design We randomly sampled articles in Medline published from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2016, in journals following the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). There were no language restrictions. Non–peer-reviewed articles, including letters and news stories, were excluded. We developed a coding manual to classify the reported conflicts of inte...

The U.S.-based Editors of ICMJE journals call for health-care professionals to act against the public health crisis of injury and death from guns.

the recommendations for authorship by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE, 2008, www. icmje.org) and the Good Publication Practice Guidelines by the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE, 2008, www.kamje.or.kr). The Uniform Requirements by the ICMJE recommends authorship as follows. ‘‘Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to c...

INTRODUCTION Authorship should establish accountability and transparency, but previous research into authorship has demonstrated that authors do not always meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors' (ICMJE) authorship criteria. Yet, these studies have mainly focused on international, high-impact journals. The aim of the present study was to assess Danish authors' general autho...

Objectives To evaluate the adequacy of reporting of protocols for randomised trials on diseases of the digestive system registered in http://ClinicalTrials.gov and the consistency between primary outcomes, secondary outcomes and sample size specified in http://ClinicalTrials.gov and published trials. Methods Randomised phase III trials on adult patients with gastrointestinal diseases registere...