Collaborative research is not about authorship. It is about delivering rapid benefit to patients
and engagement of wider communities. Single-centre publications of highly selective, niche …

Li and Bhangu 1 are pushing through an open door suggesting that multicentre,
international research collaboration is wonderful, yet it challenges individual author …

Collaboration is defined in the Oxford dictionary as 'the act of working with another person or
group of people to create or produce something'. 1 In the evolution of surgical research …

Over the last decade, UK-based trainee-led research collaboratives have delivered large-
scale clinical studies which have informed and impacted modern surgical practice. The …

A highlight is the recent" COVIDsurg Week" study which recruited > 140 000 patients
worldwide across a single month in 2021.5 This study underpins current recommendations …

Over half a century has passed since Neil Armstrong's famous words from the lunar surface;
a mantra for human potential and progress. Although the first step of any pursuit is often the …

Trainee research collaboratives use the motivation of trainees, junior doctors and medical
students to conduct multi-centre studies with greater patient cohorts and greater …

Background Surgery is rapidly changing in terms of techniques, education, and methods of
conducting research. To keep up with this pace, surgeons have recently focused on …

Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT), an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot
tool launched on 30 November 2022 by OpenAI®(San Francisco, California, USA), has …

We read with enormous interest the recent publication by Picciariello et al. 1 reflecting on the
plethora of studies related to COVID-19, with about 27 500 publications in around 3 months …