Academic criteria for promotion and tenure in faculties of medicine: a cross-sectional study of the Canadian U15 universities

DB Rice, H Raffoul, JPA Ioannidis, D Moher - Facets, 2021 - facetsjournal.com
Background: The objective of this study was to determine the presence of a set of
prespecified criteria used to assess scientists for promotion and tenure within faculties of …

DORA-compliant measures to assess research quality and impact in biomedical institutions: review of published research, international best practice and Delphi …

AR Gagliardi, RHC Chen, H Boury, M Albert, J Chow… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
ABSTRACT Objective The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
advocates for assessing biomedical research quality and impact, yet academic …

Team science criteria and processes for promotion and tenure of Health Science University Faculty

JR Meurer, J Fertig, O Garrison… - Journal of Clinical and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Although team science has expanded with far-reaching benefits, universities generally have
not established criteria to recognize its value in faculty promotion and tenure. This paper …

Improving medical research in the United Kingdom

SH Bradley, NJ DeVito, KE Lloyd, P Logullo… - BMC Research …, 2022 - Springer
Poor quality medical research causes serious harms by misleading healthcare professionals
and policymakers, decreasing trust in science and medicine, and wasting public funds. Here …

Factors relating to nonpublication and publication bias in clinical trials in Canada: a qualitative interview study

RL Morrow, B Mintzes, G Gray, MR Law… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aims This study aims to understand factors contributing to nonpublication and publication
bias in clinical trials in Canada. Methods Qualitative interviews were conducted between …

Meta-research: justifying career disruption in funding applications, a survey of Australian researchers

A Barnett, K Page, C Dyer, S Cramb - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Background: When researchers' careers are disrupted by life events–such as illness or
childbirth–they often need to take extended time off. This creates a gap in their research …

Can any drug be repurposed for cancer treatment? A systematic assessment of the scientific literature

N Stransky, P Ruth, M Schwab, MW Löffler - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Drug repurposing strategies utilize drugs, already approved by regulatory
authorities, to test their efficacy against different diseases. While this approach is …

Federal funding and citation metrics of US biomedical researchers, 1996 to 2022

JPA Ioannidis, I Hozo, B Djulbegovic - JAMA Network Open, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Both citation and funding metrics converge in shaping current perceptions of
academic success. Objective To evaluate what proportion of the most-cited US-based …

Mind the Gap! Working Toward Gender Equity in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: Present and Future

D Chowdhury, N Bansal, A Ansong… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
Evidence from medicine and other fields has shown that gender diversity results in better
decision making and outcomes. The incoming workforce of congenital heart specialists …

COVID-19 and the research scholarship ecosystem: help!

D Moher - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives Data sharing practices remain elusive in biomedicine. The COVID-19 pandemic
has highlighted the problems associated with the lack of data sharing. The objective of this …