All U.S. Institute of Medicine and General Accountability Office reports on this topic from 1990 to the present are cited, as are selected high-impact, published studies to highlight the paucity of, yet the continued need for, inclusion of females and consideration of sex and gender in research across an array of biomedical disciplines.
In fields with strong traditions of informing government policy through the publications in the grey literature (e.g. NGO and government reports), high impact publishing will seldom be the only factor that determines peer judged research influence.
Supported by the government of Catalonia, one of 17 autonomous regions within this exceptionally decentralized country, CRG operates under a novel framework that allows for independence of center leadership, and defines clear metrics of success (number of high impact papers published, for example), to evaluate researchers.
These findings lead us to propose a method of ranking journals based on a natural criterion: the higher a journal is ranked, the higher the probability of finding a high impact paper published in that journal.
Notably, this might have omitted high impact research published in other journals.
Many of these so-called high impact, recently published OMICS papers are actually a boring reading with no new idea (even at the methodical level) and no new biology discovered.
In addition to constituting a minority of only 28% of researchers worldwide, women "also tend to have more limited access to funding than men and to be less represented in prestigious universities and among senior faculty, which puts them at a further disadvantage in high-impact publishing," the report observes.
These trials were, on average, larger and more often published in high impact journals than published randomised controlled trials without subgroup reporting (see supplementary table 1).
However, about 75% of published articles were submitted first to the journal that would publish them, and high-impact journals published proportionally more articles that had been resubmitted from another journal.
The topic of planar cell polarity combined with Wnt signaling has managed to stay above the reference line since the introduction, indicating that relatively more high impact publications are published on this topic than for other Wnt topics investigated here.
We selected high impact journals of published meta-analyses to reflect current reporting practices because they have higher reporting standards.
