ArticleIrish journal of medical science2020
The ICMJE recommendations: challenges in fortifying publishing integrity.
Article in Irish journal of medical science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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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.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The role of reviewers in the era of systematic reviews and meta-analysis: A practical guide for researchers.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Guideline
- Editors and Authors of Medical Journals Should Be Mindful of the New ICMJE Disclosure Form and Updated Policies.JMA journal · 2023Article
- Letter to the editor: Citations from predatory journals must be discouraged and how to identify predatory journals and publishers.Irish journal of medical science · 2021Article
- Predatory publishing and journals: how to address a profitable and ubiquitous business.Acta neurochirurgica · 2021Article
- A reality check on publishing integrity tools in biomedical science.Clinical rheumatology · 2021Article
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1 author.
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Abstract
In December of 2019, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) updated its recommendations. As occurs regularly with the ICMJE recommendations, this document was edited and tweaked, and thus fortified and verified. At least one new fortifying positive element was introduced, namely that peer reviewers who relied on the assistance of others during peer review need to declare this to editors. This fortifies publishing integrity, via transparency, in the peer review process in biomedical science. However, a new clause was introduced: "Authors should avoid citing articles in predatory or pseudo-journals." This is controversial because the precise nature of "predatory" publishing venues, either journals or publishers, is unclear and several parameters used by existing blacklists are unreliable and thus debatable. It is concerning that these edited recommendations were simultaneously published in 13 medical journals.
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