Topic: International Committee Of Medical Journal Editors
An influential group of medical journal editors in October announced a new, more probing conflict-of-interest disclosure form that it hopes will become the industry standard. The idea, Dr. DeAngelis said, is that authors can update this one form -- available as a four-page ...
Concerns over ghostwritten medical journal articles could lead to tighter rules and more severe punishments from individual journals, reports the New York Times.. In its most extreme form, ghostwriting involves slapping the name of a scientist as an author on the piece ...
In August, the members of a US government interdisciplinary research group gathered behind closed doors to discuss a controversy that had been brewing in the lab. Over the course of the closed-door meeting, other life scientists in the lab argued on behalf ...
This spring, The Scientist received a letter signed by Fertility and Sterility editor Alan DeCherney, asking to retract comments he made three months earlier, in which he accused authors of an F&S paper of plagiarism. Another January study in the Canadian ...
Judging from recent debacles over authorship of papers, such as occurred in the journal of Fertility and Sterility earlier this year when the omission of a coauthor led to accusations of plagiarism and the retraction of a prominent paper, authorship in science ...