Healthy Skepticism Library item: 5945

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Publication type: Journal Article

Tite L, Schroter S.
Evidence based publishing.
BMJ 2006 Aug 19; 333:(7564):366
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/short/333/7564/366?etoc%3e

Abstract:

Science is based on experimentation and data. Yet ironically the publishing of science has been largely based on faith, not study. The evidence based movement is transforming medicine, so why shouldn’t the same thinking now transform publishing? At the BMJ Publishing Group we are taking a scientific approach to our own work, in pursuit of our vision of becoming an evidence based publisher. Evidence based publishing means studying the way we do things, objectively appraising our own practices in pursuit of better solutions, and following the same rigorous standards in our business that we demand from the science we publish.

The importance of evidence based publishing reaches beyond business practice. By getting a better understanding and trying to overcome the shortcomings of our own editorial work, we hope to present better science and thereby help to improve the work of doctors. To these ends the BMJ Publishing Group has …..