Objective: To identify characteristics of submitted manuscripts that are associated with
acceptance for publication by major biomedical journals. Design, setting and participants: A …

Editors of medical journals select manuscripts for publication based, in part, on the
perceived quality of the manuscript submitted. The objective of this study was to describe …

Objectives: To determine the extent to which publication is influenced by study outcome.
Design: A cohort of studies submitted to a hospital ethics committee over 10 years were …

ABSTRACT AIM: Publication in peer-reviewed journals is widely regarded as the preferred
vehicle for research dissemination. In New Zealand, the fate and publication rates of theses …

Objective: To provide clarity on the professional medical writer as author or contributor by
examining what “a substantial contribution” and “accountability” mean with respect to …

George Lundberg spent the early 1980s lamenting the loss of his journal's once great
reputation. JAMA (the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association), which he had taken …

Background Publication bias is generally ascribed to authors and sponsors failing to submit
studies with negative results, but may also occur after submission. We evaluated whether …

Methods and results Using citation impact factors for 2001, I identified the top five journals
from each of 33 medical specialties and the top 15 journals for general and internal …

Objective: Timely publication of data is important for the medical community and provides a
valuable contribution to data disclosure. The objective of this study was to identify and …

Methods and results I sent a questionnaire to the first authors of all research papers that had
three or seven or more authors and were published in five consecutive issues of a peer …