BACKGROUND Reporting guidelines have been available for the past 17 years since the inception of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials statement in 1996. These guidelines were developed to improve the quality of reporting of studies in medical literature. Despite the widespread availability of these guidelines, the quality of reporting of medical literature remained suboptimal. In this...

BACKGROUND Reporting of health research is often inadequate and incomplete. Complete and transparent reporting is imperative to enable readers to assess the validity of research findings for use in healthcare and policy decision-making. To this end, many guidelines, aimed at improving the quality of health research reports, have been developed for reporting a variety of research types. Despite ...

This Article-in-Press has been permanently withdrawn. The editorial policy of Medical Hypotheses makes it clear that the journal considers "radical, speculative, and non-mainstream scientific ideas", and articles will only be acceptable if they are "coherent and clearly expressed." However, we received serious expressions of concern about the quality of this article, which contains highly contr...

“This correspondence is now closed”: but in medical ethics the traditional editorial fiat is often less easy to issue. The quality of argument and counter-argument demonstrated by so many contributors to the Journal of Medical Ethics illustrates not so much that they are undefeated because they have gone on trying, but the existential importance, for them and for many of their readers, of the c...

BACKGROUND Citation data can be used to evaluate the editorial policies and procedures of scientific journals. Here we investigate citation counts for the three different publication tracks of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). This analysis explores the consequences of differences in editor and referee selection, while controlling for th...

Proceso editorial, justicia 1 (peor) 6 2,8 2 26 12 3 59 27,3 4 93 43,1 Durante el año 2012, el equipo editorial de Gaceta Sanitaria iseñó y envió una encuesta a los 2760 socios y socias de SESPAS. l cuestionario se diseñó en formato online y se envió por correo lectrónico a través de SESPAS en dos rondas: el primer envío se fectuó el 17 de abril y el segundo el 3 de mayo. Posteriormente e puso ...

1. Di Saverio S, Tugnoli G, Catena F, Catena G, Ansaloni F, Naidoo N: Trauma Surgery Volume 1: Trauma Management, Trauma Critical Care, Orthopaedic Trauma and Neuro-Trauma. Verlag Italy: Springer; 2014. ISBN 978-88-470-5403-5. 2. Di Saverio S, Tugnoli G, Catena F, Catena G, Ansaloni F, Naidoo N: Trauma Surgery Volume 2: Thoracic and Abdominal Trauma. Verlag Italy: Springer; 2014. ISBN 978-88-47...

INTRODUCTION We approach the problem of "predatory" journals and publishers from the perspective of small scientific communities and small journals that may sometimes be perceived as "predatory". Among other characteristics of "predatory" journals two most relevant are their business model and the quality of the editorial work. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analysed 444 Croatian open access (OA) j...

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Recent findings of authorship criteria violations in the manuscripts submitted to Biochemia Medica show that almost 40% of authors do not meet necessary criteria for authorship and thus indicate the need for better dissemination of editorial policy on authorship in our journal. We believe that such cases are mostly due to the authors’ unawareness or the lack of understanding of the authorship c...