What’s next in the evolving medical congress landscape?
Learn how medical congress attendees and organisers have been impacted by the move to virtual and hybrid formats, and how congresses may improve in the future.
Meeting report: summary of Day 3 of the 2022 ISMPP Annual Meeting
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Meeting report: summary of Day 2 of the 2022 ISMPP European Meeting
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[PODCAST] Successfully navigating the changing medical conference landscape: part 2
David Barrett continues a discussion with Rob Matheis on how medical congresses can deliver value and opportunities for everyone.
Use of altmetrics could rebalance gender bias in academic performance evaluation
Study reveals that Altmetric Attention Score used to assess the online impact of an article is not influenced by author’s gender.
The evolving role of medical communications professionals: insights from a Publication Lead
Publication Lead Chris Brooks discusses the impact of COVID-19 on medical communications.
Study reveals lack of consistency in reporting of COVID-19-related preprints
Find out how media outlets reported on COVID-19 preprints in the early months of the pandemic.
Meeting report: summary of Day 3 of the 2021 ISMPP Annual Meeting
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Meeting report: summary of Day 1 of the 2021 ISMPP Annual Meeting
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Does sharing health research on social media increase its impact?
Learn how using social media to share your research could increase its impact, and why this is becoming increasingly important.
Post-production misconduct: an emerging trend in scientific fraud
Two articles explore how the use of metrics has enabled the evolution of new types of scientific fraud, including citation manipulation.
[PODCAST] Measuring publication value
Listen to Alice Choi discuss traditional and new journal metrics in this new podcast from ISMPP.
Journal citation counts increase despite discontinuation from Scopus
Analysis of metrics for journals discontinued from Scopus for publication concerns highlights a need for clearer warnings on articles from such journals.
Metadata in scholarly communications
Metadata 2020 set out their principles for use of metadata in scholarly publishing, aiming to achieve richer, reusable, open metadata across research outputs.
The TOP Factor: a new journal metric to assess transparency and reproducibility policies
Find out more about the TOP Factor, an alternative metric to the impact factor, evaluating academic journals based on open science policies.
Social media in medical publishing: helpful or hype?
The MAP newsletter considers the use of social media in scientific communications and the role of the medical publication professional.