The Trouble with Medical Journals provides a refreshingly honest analysis of current and future trends in journal publishing including peer review, ethics in medical publishing, the influence of the pharmaceutical industry, and the risk that money can cloud objectivity in publishing.
The Trouble with Medical Journals provides a refreshingly honest analysis of current and future trends in journal publishing including peer review, ethics in medical publishing, the influence of the pharmaceutical industry, and the risk that money can cloud objectivity in publishing.
Richard Smith, Chief Executive, United Healthcare Europe. Former Editor of BMJ and Chief Executive of BMJ Publishing Group
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Introduction Introduction: medical journals are probably a force for good but need considerable reform The nature of medical journals Why bother with medical journals and whether they are honest? What and who are medical journals for? Can medical journals lead or must they follow? What are and what should be the values of medical journals? The processes of pubishing medical research The complexities and confusions of medical science Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals Problems in publishing medical research Research misconduct: the poisoning of the well The death of the author and the birth of the contributor? Publishing too much and nothing: serious problems not just nuisances Conflicts of interest: how money clouds objectivity Editorial misconduct, freedom and accountability: amateurs at work Important relationships of medical journals Patients and medical journals: from objects to partners Medical journals and the mass media: moving from love and hate to love Trying to stop failing the developing world Medical journals and pharmaceutical companies: uneasy bedfellows The highly profitable but perhaps unethical business of publishing medical research Ethical accountability of researchers and journals Relations between research ethics committees and medical journals: guarding the probity of research Ethical support and accountability for journals: an ombudsman, an ethics committee, and next? Libel and medical journals: proper constraint or against the public interest? The case that concern with ethical issues in publishing medical research is overdone The future Ethical manifestos for four different futures for medical publishing References
Introduction Introduction: medical journals are probably a force for good but need considerable reform The nature of medical journals Why bother with medical journals and whether they are honest? What and who are medical journals for? Can medical journals lead or must they follow? What are and what should be the values of medical journals? The processes of pubishing medical research The complexities and confusions of medical science Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science and journals Problems in publishing medical research Research misconduct: the poisoning of the well The death of the author and the birth of the contributor? Publishing too much and nothing: serious problems not just nuisances Conflicts of interest: how money clouds objectivity Editorial misconduct, freedom and accountability: amateurs at work Important relationships of medical journals Patients and medical journals: from objects to partners Medical journals and the mass media: moving from love and hate to love Trying to stop failing the developing world Medical journals and pharmaceutical companies: uneasy bedfellows The highly profitable but perhaps unethical business of publishing medical research Ethical accountability of researchers and journals Relations between research ethics committees and medical journals: guarding the probity of research Ethical support and accountability for journals: an ombudsman, an ethics committee, and next? Libel and medical journals: proper constraint or against the public interest? The case that concern with ethical issues in publishing medical research is overdone The future Ethical manifestos for four different futures for medical publishing References
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