New recommendations to improve authorship transparency
How can journals, institutions, funders and societies improve and standardise the current authorship system?
[VIDEO] Open access 101
Elizabeth Knowles, Associate Editorial Director at Taylor & Francis, explains the principles of open access.
[VIDEO] What’s right in copyright and permissions? A publishers’ perspective
Sam Wilkinson, Senior Editor at Taylor & Francis, outlines the principles of copyright and how to seek appropriate permissions.
Inferential statistics and false conclusions: is the p value to blame?
Significance testing and p values are widely used in medical publications, but just how meaningful are they?
Celebrate MedComms Day 2018!
Add your contributions to the 7th annual MedComms Day.
Meeting report: summary of the 14th Annual Meeting of ISMPP – Part 2
Missed the 14th Annual Meeting of ISMPP? Read the second part of our meeting report to get up to speed!
Vote now! Do we need more guidance on patient engagement in medical publications?
Share your opinion with The Publication Plan and take our poll on patient engagement in medical publications.
Meeting report: summary of the 14th Annual Meeting of ISMPP — Part 1
Missed the 14th Annual Meeting of ISMPP? Read our meeting report to get up to speed!
The disparity between top-tier journals and their smaller counterparts: should we be worried?
In a recent opinion piece for The BMJ, Dr Elizabeth Loder describes the potential impact of the resource gap between top- and lower-tier journals.
“Current pitfalls and opportunities in medical communications”
Medical communications professionals give their take on ‘fake news’, predatory journals, and the role of artificial intelligence in medical publishing.
Clinical trial transparency: are non-commercial funders lagging behind industry sponsors?
A new study from the AllTrials team sheds light on clinical trial reporting rates by non-industry sponsors.
Can the lay public enhance peer review?
Researchers argue that lay review will increase the relevance of medical publications: a new study aims to evaluate its impact.
The end of a successful “pilot”: GAPP retires after 6 years
The GAPP team retires after six years of “providing a timely and credible response to influential stories about medical publication professionals”.
ResearchGate and publishers collaborate over copyright
As discussions continue on how best to balance open science with copyright protection, ResearchGate and publishers collaborate on the issue.
A new series from The BMJ highlights unreported trials
A new, regular series in The BMJ will highlight a different unreported clinical trial every week, with the intention of improving reporting rates.
Inconsistency in retraction notices across bibliographic platforms
A recent study highlights the difficulty in identifying retracted articles in online databases.