ReviewPakistan journal of medical sciences
Publish or Perish mantra in the medical field: A systematic review of the reasons, consequences and remedies.
Review in Pakistan journal of medical sciences. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The value of collaborative consortia postdoctoral training programs needs further long-term observation and research to acknowledge.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- What makes an article a must read in medical education?BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Medical researchers' perceptions regarding research evaluation: a web-based survey in Japan.BMJ open · 2024Article
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- An analysis of retracted studies in cardiology in the last two decades.Future cardiology · 2024Article
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- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research: A Bibliometric Analysis over a 50-Year Period.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- A survey study examining the motivations, concerns, and perspectives of medical students engaging in neurosurgical research.Surgical neurology international · 2021Article
- Determining the effectiveness of peer-assisted learning in medical education: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
objectivesGenerally, academic promotions, job retention, job mobility, and professional development of a medical faculty members are judged primarily by the growth in publication outputs. Universities and research institutions are more likely to recruit and promote those academics carrying voluminous résumés with larger number of published articles. This review elaborates the causes and consequences of the pressure to publish and the ways and means to cope with this paradigm.
methodsIn 2015, database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, LISTA (EBSCO), Medline and Oxford University Library were searched for the English language full-text articles published during 2000-2015, by using MeSH terms "pressure to publish", "urge to publish", "research ethics", "plagiarism", "article retraction", "medical field". This search was further refined by selecting the articles in terms of relevancy and contents.
resultsThis research showed that some universities offer generous grants to researchers with a high h-index and with more publications in elite journals, which promise an enhanced prospect of citations and elevation in the scientific rankings of the funding institutions. This generates an involuntary obsession to publish with the primary intention to obtain promotions, high scientific rankings, and improved job security. This compelling pressure to publish results in widespread publication of non-significant research with a high index of plagiarism that eventually leads to an increased frequency of retractions.
conclusionResearch centers and academic institutions have an obligation to train their academics in sound scientific writing and to apprise them of the publication ethics and the grave consequences of plagiarism and research misconduct.
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