The members of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ICMJEE) will now revise their publication guidelines to require that researchers disclose their sponsors' involvement to editors when they submit articles.
Ginger Pinholster, a spokeswoman for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes the journal, acknowledged that on "rare occasions" Science does allow exceptions to its publication guidelines to protect privacy.
Five years after their publication, guidelines on quality of life in the ICU are imperfectly applied.
The lack of quality of clinical trials in humans led to the introduction of publication guidelines that aimed to improve the quality and transparency of studies.
More recently, publication guidelines for structural modelling of small-angle scattering data [11] are likely to provide an invaluable starting point for formalising a small-angle scattering ontology.
Creating enforceable, specific publication guidelines prohibiting ghostwriting can be tricky, Fugh-Berman says, because researchers may not recognize conflicts of interest obscured by the intermediation of MECs.
On 25 May, it wrote to the editors of 32 leading journals, calling on them to revise publication guidelines to require a sex analysis.
The aim of this study is to describe the development and adoption of general publication guidelines for various study designs, provide examples of guidelines adapted for specific topics, and recommend next steps.
An inferred message from the discussion on promoting responsible conduct and ethical oversight is that it is in researchers' best interests to make sure they are fully aware of publication guidelines and research ethics.
Yet, this format has significant flaws as, in general, it is not typically setup uniformly, often has only a subset of all the metadata of the research process, and is influenced by the biases of authors and the constraints of publication guidelines.
Macrina has seen RCR grow to include a focus on data transparency, treatment, and storage; verification of cell lines, antibodies, and other reagents; parameters for working with the media; and the expansion of publication guidelines including "dual-use" biosecurity reporting for results that might be used for weapons development.
