UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Methodological research has found that non-published studies often have different results than those that are published, a phenomenon known as publication bias. When results are not published, or are published selectively based on the direction or the strength of the findings, healthcare professionals and consumers of healthcare cannot base their decision-making on the ...

سخن سردبیر   editorial   مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان   دوره نهم، شماره چهارم ، زمستان 138 9، 248-247     انتشار اضافی   redundant publication     محسن رضائیان [1]   m. rezaeian در سخن سردبیری زمستان 1388 مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان که به موضوع «اخلاق انتشار» ( publication ethics ) پرداخته بود [1]، به مواردی از عدم رعایت اخلاق انتشار توسط نویسندگان یک مقاله از جمله «سرقت علمی» ( plagiari...

BACKGROUND Scientific publication is a vital mission of medical schools and it is important to periodically document how well schools fulfil this mission. AIMS This study aimed to analyse the publication record of Libyan medical schools in international journals indexed in PubMed between 1988 and 2007. METHODS Medline was searched using PubMed for publications affiliated to Libya during 198...

BACKGROUND We set out to determine the rate, time-trend, and defining factors associated with publication of abstracts presented at two annual scientific meetings of the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology (caro). METHODS All abstracts accepted for oral presentation in 2007 and 2010 were obtained from the caro program archives and searched using the PubMed database. Variables in the da...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of a higher publishing probability for statistically significant positive outcomes on the false-positive rate in meta-analysis. DESIGN Meta-analyses of different sizes (N=10, N=20, N=50 and N=100), levels of heterogeneity and levels of publication bias were simulated. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES The type I error rate for the test of the mean ef...

the present article is a brief presentation of various aspects of scientific misconduct in medical papers. the best approach for prevention of scientific misconduct in medical journals is the application of accepted codes of publication ethics.

The purpose of this study was to determine the publication rate and time to publication following abstract presentation at a major neurosurgical meeting, namely the 2005 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). We reviewed all 754 abstracts presented at the 2005 CNS annual meeting to determine publication status and identify factors that are associated with publication. A ...

INTRODUCTION Abstracts presented at medical conferences or scientific meetings should ideally be published as full-text articles in peer-reviewed journals after initial presentation and feedback regardless of the findings. The aim of this survey was to determine the publication rate of papers presented at the Danish Emergency Medicine Conferences in 2009, 2010 and 2011. METHODS Abstracts pres...

biological marker is a term used in many scientific fields and was introduced as a measurable element or a clinical indicator in the abnormal biological processes, pathological condition, or pharmacological intervention. science citation index expanded (sci-e) from database of web of science (wos) was used to extract all publication indexed as a topic of “ biomarkers ” during a period of eleven...