A new international standard of editorial policy calls for written informed consent by the subject of every case report. Although this appears to be ethically appealing, the authors posit that in some situations, requesting informed consent may be unethical, can harm patients, and may erode the use of case reports as a valuable teaching method in psychiatry and psychotherapy. The authors discus...

Animal research is not only regulated by legislation but also by self-regulatory mechanisms within the scientific community, which include biomedical journals' policies on animal use. For editorial policies to meaningfully impact attitudes and practice, they must not only be put into effect by editors and reviewers, but also be set to high standards. We present a novel tool to classify journals...

The popularization of science and public health was a major reason for the choice by the Editors of CSP to illustrate the covers of the journal’s 2017 editions with the theme Street Art 1. This same choice served as the inspiration for organizing the first internship program in science publishing in Brazil. Just as many people believe that the urban canvases covering cities are hardly appropria...

Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to bio-medical journals were first published in 1978 [1] and have since been adopted by most major periodicals. This has not been the case in occupational medicine, however, and there are currently no standard guidelines being followed for manuscripts in our field. A brief look at the editorial policies of eight major journals from four global regi...

AIM To analyze scientometrically the dynamic science internationalization on colorectal tumour markers as reflected in five information portals and to outline the significant journals, scientists and institutions. METHODS A retrospective problem-oriented search was performed in Web of Science Core Collection (WoS), MEDLINE, BIOSIS Citation Index (BIOSIS) and Scopus for 1986-2015 as well as in...

If you are reading this issue of Cell in print, you may have already noticed in flipping through to get to this editorial a dramatic change on our masthead page. If you are accessing the issue via the new Cell website, I encourage you to click on the Editorial Board and Contacts link to check it out. With the new year, we have revised and greatly expanded the Cell editorial board. We would like...

A recent editorial (Aldrich et al. The Ecstasy and Agony of Assay Interference Compounds . J. Chem. Inf. MODEL 2017 , 57 , 387 - 390 ) is examined critically. When assessing assay hits from screening, it is important to draw a distinction between false positives, that have no effect on target function, and compounds that affect target function through an undesirable mechanism of action. Obser...