*Reza Kiani, MD, MRCPsych Specialist Registrar/Honorary Lecturer in Psychiatry of Learning Disability, and Honorary Specialist Registrar, National Deaf Services. Leicester Frith Hospital, Leicester, UK Tel: 0116 225 5273 Fax: 0116 225 5272 email: [email protected] Satheesh Kumar Gangadharan, MD, MRCPsych Consultant in Psychiatry of Learning Disability, Leicester Frith Hospital, Leicester, UK T...

CONTEXT A number of general medical journals and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) request authors to disclose their contributions. Little is known about the effect of journal policies on authors' disclosure of their contributions. OBJECTIVE To determine the number of named authors who do not meet ICMJE criteria for authorship, according to their published contrib...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of honorary and ghost authors in six leading general medical journals in 2008 and compare this with the prevalence reported by authors of articles published in 1996. DESIGN Cross sectional survey using a web based questionnaire. SETTING International survey of journal authors. PARTICIPANTS Sample of corresponding authors of 896 research articles, review...

dear editor: thank you for your letter ref. no 2003-2 dated 7 november 2010 regarding the comments of an ophthalmologist from thailand named professor viroj wiwan on my article titled “evaluation of contrast sensitivity, color vision and visual acuity in patients with and without diabetes”. he has suggested that the combination of existing tests may be a good way to increase the sensitivity of ...