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Tenth international congress on peer review and scientific publication
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Mandatory data and code sharing for research published by The BMJ
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PLOS Biology at 20: Reflecting on the road we’ve traveled
Loading metrics Citation: Parthasarathy H, Bloom T, Ganley E (2023) PLOS Biology at 20: Reflecting on the road we’ve traveled. PLoS Biol 21(10): e3002340. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002340 Published: October 4, 2023 Copyright: © 2023 Parthasarathy et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Peer Review and Scientific Publication at a Crossroads: Call for Research for the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication | Medical Journals and Publishing | JAMA | JAMA Network
The way science is assessed, published, and disseminated has markedly changed since 1986, when the launch of a new Congress focused on the science of peer review was first announced.
Peer review and scientific publication at a crossroads
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Erosion of healthcare for those who need it most
News & Views Erosion of healthcare... Erosion of healthcare for those who need it most Editor's Choice BMJ 2022; 377 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o1234 Cite this as: BMJ 2022;377:o1234 Theodora Bloom, executive editor The BMJ tbloom{at}bmj.com Follow Theodora on Twitter @TheoBloom The UK and US differ in healthcare funding models and political structures, but both national governments are intervening in ways that further disadvantage those who already experience the worst health outcomes.
A Hippocratic oath for medical communicators
Theodora Bloom, executive editor The BMJ tbloom{at}bmj.com Follow Theodora on Twitter @TheoBloom How do you solve a problem as entrenched as racism in health research? Two tools you need are clear language to describe different population groups and good data. Both are lacking, argue Richard Powell and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-065574).1 They identify racism in research commissioning, in recruitment of participants, and in the assessment and dissemination of research outcomes.
Ninth international congress on peer review and scientific publication-call for abstracts
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Shepherding preprints through a pandemic
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The Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication: A Call for Research
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Ninth international congress on peer review and scientific publication: call for research
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New preprint server for medical research
Claire Rawlinson, publisher, Theodora Bloom, executive editor, The BMJ 1BMJ, London, UK Correspondence to: T Bloom tbloom{at}bmj.com Announcing the launch of medRxiv for faster access to better evidence Preprints—preliminary versions of research articles—have been circulated among researchers for many decades. Initially, hard copies of manuscripts would be sent to collaborators and peers around the world for comments before formal journal submission.
F1000Research Article: Amending published articles: time to rethink retractions and corrections?.
Opinion Article [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-2440 1, Theodora Bloom https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0222-4177 2, Jennifer Lin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9680-2328 3, Elizabeth Moylan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4651-4969 4 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-2440 1, Theodora Bloom https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0222-4177 2, Jennifer Lin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9680-2328 3, Elizabeth Moylan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4651-4969 4 PUBLISHED...
Amending published articles: time to rethink retractions and corrections?
We are by no means downplaying the need for rigorous investigation and, if needed, sanctions for potential misconduct. By contrast, we believe that our proposal would strengthen such investigations by ensuring that amendments to the literature and investigations can happen independently.
BMJ declares its revenues from industry
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Healthcare for the many
Do clever people live longer? Numerous studies linking IQ to health outcomes indicate that they might, and now a large longitudinal study reaches a similar conclusion (doi:10.1136/bmj.j2708). In their long term study Catherine Calvin and colleagues followed tens of thousands of people born in Scotland in 1936 and found that higher IQ at school age correlated with lower death rates from many causes, in women and men.
Amending Published Articles: Time To Rethink Retractions And Corrections?
Amending Published Articles: Time To Rethink Retractions And Corrections? Virginia Barbour, Theodora Bloom, Jennifer Lin, Elizabeth Moylan bioRxiv 118356; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/118356
Change in the right direction for patients
With the NHS facing big challenges, how can its leaders ensure that changes are those that matter most to patients? How can they ensure that everybody pulls in the same direction? Three overseas recruits to chief executive posts tell The BMJ what the NHS needs most (p xxx). There is no shortage of innovative ideas, but implementing them on the wards is hard, especially when an improvement programme may take longer than the tenure of a chief executive.
A question of evidence
A central tenet of evidence based medicine is that practice should change when new evidence comes to light. But how good does the evidence have to be? Public Health England recently recommended that everyone over 4 years old should take a low dose of vitamin D, particularly to compensate for low sunlight in autumn and winter (doi:10.1136/i6183). But the evidence to support this recommendation is as yet weak (doi:10.1136/bmj.i6201).
The Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication: A Call for Research
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