Healthy Skepticism Library item: 17359

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Publication type: Journal Article

Are medical journals getting better—or worse?
The Lancet 2009 Sep 19; 374:(9694):950
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61644-5/fulltext

Abstract:

“Why don’t we have more research like that?” So asked Drummond Rennie from JAMA , the architect and inspiration for the sixth international congress on peer review and biomedical publication, held in Vancouver, Canada, last week. He was referring to work done long ago on deep gender biases in science. And, indeed, in Vancouver it did feel a little like déjà vu, all over again. More work on conflicts of interest, authorship and contributorship, publication ethics, plagiarism, the paths …