Scientific research can be a cutthroat business, with undue pressure to publish quickly, first, and frequently. The resulting race to publish ahead of competitors is intense and to the detriment of the scientific endeavor. Just as summiting Everest second is still an incredible achievement, so too, we believe, is the scientific research resulting from a group who have (perhaps inadvertently) re...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of the CONSORT for Abstracts guidelines, and different editorial policies used by five leading general medical journals to implement the guidelines, on the reporting quality of abstracts of randomised trials. DESIGN Interrupted time series analysis. SAMPLE We randomly selected up to 60 primary reports of randomised trials per journal per year from five hi...

What are the statistical practices of articles published in journals with a high impact factor? Are there differences compared with articles published in journals with a somewhat lower impact factor that have adopted editorial policies to reduce the impact of limitations of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing? To investigate these questions, the current study analyzed all articles related to p...

The Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology receives an increasing number of manuscripts reporting tests of associations of candidate genetic polymorphisms with measures of psychopathology in children and adolescents, including tests of gene-environment interactions. These studies represent the exciting new directions that research in child psychopathology is taking. However, the studies also repr...

http://dx.doi.org/10.3415/VCOT-15-02-0038 The authors of papers submitted for publication in Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology are required to confirm that the manuscript has been submitted solely to this journal, and it is not published, in press, or submitted elsewhere. It is essential that the paper is an original contribution, and that it does not contain data that ha...

During the last decades the country has witnessed a noteworthy expansion and consolidation of graduate studies in Public Health. This expansion has been followed by the emergence of new research groups and lines of research, many of which deal fundamentally with the numerous challenges posed by public health at the regional level. Depending on a set of factors (research theme, methodological ap...

The Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) is a bimonthly scientific journal, that publishes mostly original articles. It is indexed in the Index Medicus/MEDLINE, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. Since the CMJ's 15th anniversary in 2007, our aim has been to assess the importance of the Journal through its impact factor (IF) and immediacy index, with a particu...

one of the main requirements for providing software security is the enforcement of access control policies, which is sometimes referred to as the heart of security. the main purpose of access control policies is to protect resources of the system against unauthorized accesses. any error in the implementation of access control policies may lead to undesirable outcomes. hence, we should ensure th...