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Self-correction in biomedical publications and the scientific impact

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The study suggests that the intensified self-correction in biomedicine is due to the attention of readers and authors, who spot errors in their hub of evidence-based information.
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Aim To analyze mistakes and misconduct in multidisciplinary and specialized biomedical journals.

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Publish or Perish mantra in the medical field: A systematic review of the reasons, consequences and remedies.

TL;DR: This research showed that some universities offer generous grants to researchers with a high h-index and with more publications in elite journals, which promise an enhanced prospect of citations and elevation in the scientific rankings of the funding institutions.
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Integrity of Authorship and Peer Review Practices: Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement.

TL;DR: There is a need to generate greater awareness, especially in authors from non-English speaking regions of the world, about inappropriate authorship and unethical practices in peer review, and support of any external editing agency should be clearly disclosed by authors at the time of submission of a manuscript.
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Retraction of publications in nursing and midwifery research: A systematic review

TL;DR: Compared to more established academic disciplines, rates of retraction in nursing and midwifery are low, which may indicate that unsound research is not being identified and that the checks and balances incumbent in the scientific method are not working.
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Innovative Strategies for Peer Review

TL;DR: An overview of the innovative strategies for peer review is given and perspectives that may be helpful in introducing changes to peer review are considered to help bridge gaps in an imperfect but indispensable peer review system.
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Integrity of clinical research conduct, reporting, publishing, and post-publication promotion in rheumatology.

TL;DR: The number of rheumatology journals, and papers related to this specialty, is expanding every day, and careful consideration for ethical aspects of such published work is mandatory for authors, readers, reviewers, editors, and all stakeholders.
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Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications

TL;DR: A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error, compared with 67.4% attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud, duplicate publication, and plagiarism.
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Impact of covert duplicate publication on meta-analysis: a case study

TL;DR: There is no evidence of the impact of duplicate data on meta-analysis, and 17% of systematically searched randomised trials of ondansetron as a postoperative antiemetic were covert duplicates and resulted in 28% of patient data being duplicated.
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Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased

TL;DR: Lower barriers to publication of flawed articles are seen in the increase in number and proportion of retractions by authors with a single retraction and an increase in retraction for “new” offenses such as plagiarism and a decrease in the time-to-retraction of flawed work.
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Deep Impact: Unintended consequences of journal rank

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the most recent and pertinent data on the consequences of our current scholarly communication system with respect to various measures of scientific quality (such as utility/citations, methodological soundness, expert ratings or retractions).
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