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Public availability of published research data in high-impact journals.
Background There is increasing interest to make primary data from published research publicly available. We aimed to assess the current status of making research data... -
Less Work, Less Respect: Authors' Perceived Importance of Research Contributi...
Background Attitudes towards authorship are connected with authors' research experience and with knowledge of authorship criteria of International Committee of Medical Journal... -
Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?
Background The number of retracted scientific publications has risen sharply, but it is unclear whether this reflects an increase in publication of flawed articles or an... -
Trial registration numbers are underreported in biomedical publications.
CONTEXT: Since September 2005, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has required that randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are prospectively registered... -
LabTrove: A Lightweight, Web Based, Laboratory "Blog" as a Route towards a Ma...
BackgroundThe electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) has the potential to replace the paper notebook with a marked-up digital record that can be searched and shared. However, it... -
Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence of Study Publication Bias and Out...
BACKGROUND: The increased use of meta-analysis in systematic reviews of healthcare interventions has highlighted several types of bias that can arise during the completion of a... -
A Comprehensive Survey of Retracted Articles from the Scholarly Literature
Background The number of retracted scholarly articles has risen precipitously in recent years. Past surveys of the retracted literature each limited their scope to articles in... -
Cooperation between Referees and Authors Increases Peer Review Accuracy
Peer review is fundamentally a cooperative process between scientists in a community who agree to review each other's work in an unbiased fashion. Peer review is the foundation... -
Are reports of randomized controlled trials improving over time? A systematic...
Background Inadequate reporting undermines findings of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). This study assessed and compared articles published in high-impact general medical... -
Scientific value of systematic reviews: survey of editors of core clinical jo...
Background Synthesizing research evidence using systematic and rigorous methods has become a key feature of evidence-based medicine and knowledge translation. Systematic... -
Fate of articles that warranted retraction due to ethical concerns: a descrip...
OBJECTIVE: To study journals' responses to a request from the State Medical Association of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, to retract 88 articles due to ethical concerns, and to check... -
If we share data, will anyone use them? Data sharing and reuse in the long ta...
Research on practices to share and reuse data will inform the design of infrastructure to support data collection, management, and discovery in the long tail of science and... -
Statistical Reporting Errors and Collaboration on Statistical Analyses in Psy...
Statistical analysis is error prone. A best practice for researchers using statistics would therefore be to share data among co-authors, allowing double-checking of executed... -
Who Has Used Internal Company Documents for Biomedical and Public Health Rese...
OBJECTIVE: To describe the sources of internal company documents used in public health and healthcare research. METHODS: We searched PubMed and Embase for articles using... -
Imbalance in Individual Researcher's Peer Review Activities Quantified for Fo...
Researchers contribute to the scientific peer review system by providing reviews, and "withdraw" from it by submitting manuscripts that are subsequently reviewed. So far as we... -
Funding Source and Research Report Quality in Nutrition Practice-Related Rese...
Background The source of funding is one of many possible causes of bias in scientific research. One method of detecting potential for bias is to evaluate the quality of... -
The geographical distribution of leadership in globalized clinical trials
Background: Pharmaceutical trials are mainly initiated by sponsors and investigators in the United States, Western Europe and Japan. However, more and more patients are enrolled... -
An Empirical Analysis of Overlap Publication in Chinese Language and English ...
BACKGROUND: There are a number of sound justifications for publishing nearly identical information in Chinese and English medical journals, assuming several conditions are met.... -
Toward Reproducible Computational Research: An Empirical Analysis of Data and...
Journal policy on research data and code availability is an important part of the ongoing shift toward publishing reproducible computational science. This article extends the... -
Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and ...
Systematically evaluating scientific literature is a time consuming endeavor that requires hours of coding and rating. Here, we describe a method to distribute these tasks...
