Three alternative ways to assign credit for bioscience authors working in collaboratives. By Drea Burbank MD, consultant specializing in disruptive medical technology Science is changing. Trends
In the early twentieth century, scientific publications in French, German and English were held in the same regard internationally. After World War II, the United
TALKING ABOUT AUTHORSHIP IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH Two simple practices to improve the quality of biomedical research and authorship. By Drea Burbank, MD and consultant specializing in disruptive
As we saw in our last post on the Top Ten Reasons Papers Get Rejected, errors in statistical analysis are among the most common grounds for
Articles published in most open access journals are immediately and permanently free for anyone to read and download. Some even allow researchers to re-use material
Reporting guidelines help and guide authors in the preparation and accurate reporting of research studies, e.g., CONSORT for randomized trials, STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA
Except for the title, the abstract is the most widely read part of your manuscript, and therefore must be both effective and attractive. Your abstract
When a manuscript is submitted to a scientific journal, it enters an intensive revision process. It has to pass through several checkpoints on the road to
The journal impact factor (IF) is the most ubiquitous metric used to evaluate research nowadays. It is a measure of the average number of citations
Fiddling with citations and organizing an ever-growing number of files can be a source of great distress for researchers. But it doesn’t have to be
