Understanding and supporting anonymity policies in peer review

Peer Review – Legal and Ethical Issues Faced by Medical Staff: The Mandate for Physician Leadership

Physicians working in hospitals face challenges when it comes to understanding and meeting the medical, legal, and ethical subjects outlined in the hospital bylaws. Hospital staff physicians and the hospital administration both aspire for high quality medical care and the assurance of patient safety. Unfortunately, when quality concerns surface, there can be reasonable differences of opinion as...

The Blind Shall See! The Question of Anonymity in Journal Peer Review

A generic P2P architecture for anonymous services

Peer-to-peer systems exhibit, due to their decentralized structure, interesting anonymity properties and are therefore often used as a supporting service for anonymous applications. Unfortunately, there is currently no overall framework that captures the various peer-to-peer models and their specific features to guide the development of anonymous applications. This paper presents a generic and ...

Editorial: Extended Data at eNeuro

Dear friends and colleagues, From launch, we decided that all scientific arguments essential to supporting a story need to be included in the manuscript when published. We started with the option for source data, which allowed for supporting small datasets. In some instances, however, larger extensions of datasets are required to compliment the results, which was a limitation of source data fil...

بررسی دیدگاههای سردبیران مجلات علوم پزشکی ایران در مورد استانداردهای انتشار تحقیقات پزشکی

Background: Medical journal editors have impressible role in the publishing process. In the present study we have surveyed the attitudes and knowledge of Iranian medical journal editors towards standards of published medical research.  Materials and methods: 51 editors of registered journals were invited, where 27 have taken part. A self-directed questionnaire according to the Vancouver group g...