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Predatory journals claiming that they follow all the ICMJE recommendations

Predatory journals claiming that they follow all the ICMJE recommendations

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Potential predatory journals are colonizing the ICMJE recommendations list of followers. R Dal-Ré, A Marušić. Neth J Med. 2019;77(2):92–96. Link: http://www.njmonline.nl/getpdf.php?id=2093 ; PMID: 30895939. Recently several predatory journals seem to claim that they follow all the ICMJE (The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations to gain the appearance of legitimacy. The term ‘predatory journals’ could be assumed, that these are open access journals that publish poor quality articles, with poor or no peer-review process, owned by publishers providing no transparent editorial services. Their main objective is financial gain by article processing charges to authors. In this paper, the authors…
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The new PubMed is here! Learn something about it

The new PubMed is here! Learn something about it

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In mid November 2019, the National Library of Medicine, USA announced the launch of the new PubMed. They mentioned that the new one will become the "default" from Spring 2020 - which will be around the 19th of March, 2020. It is time for us to start getting used to the new PubMed - both the good and the not so good, about the new PubMed. Here are some points of learning: The site address The new PubMed is available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ . If you have bookmarked the old, one, you will get a message asking you to try the…
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Compliance. Ethics. Integrity…

Compliance. Ethics. Integrity…

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Compliance - makes us follow the law. We could be punished or fined if we are not compliant. Ethics - something we most often grow up with. Taught directly or indirectly by parents, other family members and teachers. Integrity - results when we have compliance and ethics deep rooted inside us. The absence of integrity leads to the breakdown of trust. And this erosion of trust is very expensive! Stephen MR Covey explains this in his book - The Speed of Trust. He quotes the example of the cost of airport security forces, soaring after the 9/11 tragedy! I would…
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