Journals
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Retraction Watch: Providing Information About Bad Information
"Can a single conversation change minds on divisive social issues, such as same-sex marriage?" the study's authors asked in its abstract. "A randomized placebo-controlled trial assessed whether gay or straight messengers were effective at encouraging voters to support same-sex marriage and whether attitude change persisted and spread to others in voters’ social networks."
The results? "[O]nly gay canvassers’ effects persisted in 3-week, 6-week, and 9-month follow-ups."
It was compelling enough stuff that in December 2014 the much-respected magazine Science published the study. One problem, though: aspects of the survey were…
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This Mediterranean diet study was hugely impactful. The science just fell apart
The findings helped heave olive oil and nuts into the realm of the sacred. They were catnip for journalists (“Mediterranean Diet Shown to Ward Off Heart Attack and Stroke,” the New York Times story read. “Spanish Test: Mediterranean Diet Shines In Clinical Study,” proclaimed NPR’s headline.) And they spawned a cottage industry of studies by other scientists, who used the PREDIMED data to run hundreds of different analyses. But it turns out the trial wasn’t properly run.
At Medical Journals, Writers Paid by Industry Play Big Role
It's an example of an open secret in medicine: Many of the articles that appear in scientific journals under the bylines of prominent academics are actually written by ghostwriters in the pay of drug companies.
Do prestigious science journals attract bad science?
Do top journals publish more flawed papers — or do they just get more scrutiny?
How A Leading Journal Helped A Pharma Company Exaggerate Medication Benefits
How excited would you be about a medication that lowered your risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke by 1.5%? Excited enough to spend a few thousand dollars a year on the drug? I expect not. What if, instead, the drug reduced those same terrible outcomes by 20%? That’s probably enough benefit to interest some in the drug.
How to Read and Understand a Scientific Paper: A Step-by-Step Guide for Non-Scientists
Reading and understanding research papers is a skill that every single doctor and scientist has had to learn during graduate school. You can learn it too, but like any skill it takes patience and practice.
Impact Factor and the Future of Medical Journals
Some research publications are getting away from flawed measures of influence that make it easy to game the system.
Juicy Journals
Forget books and magazines. Turn off the television. Put down the Starr report. If you really want the lowdown, something that will tell you almost anything you want to know about people, medical journals are where the action is. One of medicine's hidden pleasures is that while there is a fantastic amount to learn about human beings, most of it is already spelled out in some journal.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science.
Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals
Competition is fierce to get published in leading journals. But what about the overworked professors at less prestigious schools and community colleges, without big grants and state-of-the-art labs? How do they get ahead? As it turns out, many of their articles are appearing in “journals” that will publish almost anything, for fees that can range into the hundreds of dollars per paper. These publications often are called predatory journals, on the assumption that well-meaning academics are duped into working with them — tricked by flattering emails from the journals inviting them to submit a paper or fooled by a name that sounded like a journal they knew.
My friend's a walking medical journal
My friend Matt is covered in medical tattoos.
Open Access
Should scientific articles be available online and free to the public?
The one chart you need to understand any health study
Even with the best available evidence from around the world at our disposal, we have to analyze it and apply it to our particular circumstances. A personal experience with the success or failure of a drug, like an allergic reaction, is more informative for you than the most rigorous study on the drug ever could be.
There Are Now 8,000 Fake Science ‘Journals’ Worldwide, Researchers Say
Researchers from high-profile institutions are falling for these scams.
Retraction Watch: Providing Information About Bad Information
In a field supposedly peer-reviewed and self-correcting, there is a decided lack of transparency and dissemination when it comes to retractions. Enter Retraction Watch, which aims to change the paradigm.
Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
Bookshelf
HSTATis a free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making.
Elsevier
As the world's leading publisher of science and health information, Elsevier serves more than 30 million scientists, students, and health and information professionals worldwide.
Free Medical Journals
The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. We welcome your comments and suggestions.
Genamics
Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the Internet. The database presently contains 93424 titles. Journal information includes the description, journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN.
Internet Scientific Publications
Find journal research with over 3000 sources.
JournalWATCH
JournalWATCH helps physicians and allied health professionals save time and stay informed by providing brief, clearly written, clinically focused perspectives on the medical developments that affect practice.
MedBio World
MedBioWorld is a premier online resource portal for professional medical and biotechnology information.
MIT Libraries
The MIT Libraries promote discovery and enable learning and advancement of knowledge at MIT.
OpenMD
Search billions of documents from medical organizations, journals, and databases.
Oxford Academic
Our goal is to bring the highest quality research to the widest possible audience. As a major international publisher of academic and research journals, we publish well over 200 journals, many in partnership with the world's leading prestigious learned societies.
PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Questia
Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection.
Taylor & Francis
Welcome to www.expert-reviews.com - your gateway to commentary and analysis in today's most exciting areas of healthcare.
Wolters Kluwer
You'll find the best medical literature in the world from more than 200 publications. Content is updated regularly, according to the frequency of each journal, assuring you of the most up-to-date information available.
Journal of Medical Internet Research
The "Journal of Medical Internet Research" (JMIR; ISSN 1438-8871, Medline-abbreviation: J Med Internet Res), founded in 1999, is a leading health informatics and health services/health policy journal (ranked first by impact factor in these disciplines) focussing on emerging technologies in health, medicine, and biomedical research. JMIR was the first open access journal covering health informatics, and the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and Internet-related technologies...
BestBETs
BETs were developed in the Emergency Department of Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK, to provide rapid evidence-based answers to real-life clinical questions, using a systematic approach to reviewing the literature.
National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Betheseda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health.
QxMD
Read by QxMD’ provides a single place to discover new research, read outstanding topic reviews and search PubMed. It provides a simple interface that drives discovery and seamless access to the medical literature by reformatting it into a personalized digital medical journal.
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