Editorial: Debates in scientific practice

Editorial bias in scientific publications.

INTRODUCTION Many authors believe that there are biases in scientific publications. Editorial biases include publication bias; which refers to those situations where the results influence the editor's decision, and editorial bias refers to those situations where factors related with authors or their environment influence the decision. DEVELOPMENT This paper includes an analysis of the situati...

Editorial Practices, Scientific Impact, and Scientific Quality

Recently, at one of the weekly editors' meetings where we go over the manuscripts that are ready for decision, it was noted that " Reviewers review manuscripts; editors review the reviews. " This summary succinctly encapsulates the editorial practices at the Journal of General Physiology ; it also reinforced earlier suggestions that it might be useful to both authors and reviewers to describe h...

Editorial Article Plagiarism in Scientific Publications

Scientific Method in Practice

editorial: present status of scientific medical journals

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...