Aim: To characterise the publication practices of consultant surgeons, who are full members
of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), over …

Methods The 8 top-ranked plastic surgery journals were selected. We manually reviewed
the last 40 original articles in each plastic surgery journal, to represent more than 2 months …

BACKGROUND: The allotment of grants is increasingly dependent on benchmarking of
scientific output. Still, data to benchmark such output for plastic surgeons are lacking …

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the British Journal of Plastic Surgery at 10 year
intervals over five decades (1955e2005) and to record the number of authors for each …

Background Plastic surgery faculty, residencies, and institutions are frequently judged on the
quantity and quality of their research output. Some of the most impressive individuals in the …

Background Publication bias is defined as favoring publication of research results based on
their nature and direction (eg, positive vs. negative results). We sought to determine the …

Background: As globalization and worldwide economic development progress, the
boundaries that previously prevented the exchange of goods, services and information have …

Introduction Publication bias describes a phenomenon in which significant positive results
have a higher likelihood of being published compared to negative or nonsignificant results …

The objective of the study is to investigate associations between research topics, level of
evidence, conflict of interest, and declared sources of funding in articles published in major …

Background There is a paucity of research comparing journal articles that accrue numerous
citations with those that accrue few citations over time. Understanding differences between …