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Ethics committee approval
我们经常向提交给我们的日记的每个研究手稿批准伦理委员会批准。有时，来自不同国家的研究可能没有道德委员会批准，提交人可能声称他们的研究不需要批准。在这种情况下，我们咨询了应对代理人的“编辑指导：研究，审计和服务评估”文件，并在编辑中评估研究...... -
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Authorship dispute
In April 2014, our journal received a case report from author A with co-authors B, C, D and E. After undergoing a first round of revisions pertaining only to the paper’s format, author A excluded co-authors C, D, and E from the revised version and retained co-author B, without notifying the journal of this change. After this change, the manuscript underwent the complete evaluation process, comp… -
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审阅者请求在出版后作为作者添加
A paper was submitted to our journal. The associate editor assigned to the paper immediately assigned a reviewer who he knew was well qualified to give a good review, as they had worked with the authors before. The editor did think it odd that the reviewer was not an author on this particular paper, given the close collaboration. However, when invited, the reviewer (R1), did not flag up any con… -
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Plagiarized figure
我们收到了一份评论文件，并在我们的网站上被接受并发布。然后，我们注意到，其中一个数字已从另一个期刊发布的论文中复制。在出版之前，如果数据是原始的，或者如果他们需要参考，则提出作者，并且作者回应了他们是原创的。确认一个数字的相似性以发布... -
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The ethics of self-experimentation
作者是他的研究的主题。他depleted himself of a vital nutrient until he had overt clinical and biochemical signs of the deficiency. He monitored various biochemical parameters as he became more deficient and submitted two manuscripts presenting his results: one detailing the biochemical changes and one detailing the differences in results obtained from different commercially a… -
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Author disagreement blocks submission
一份文件提交给医学期刊报告原始人类受试者研究。两个相应的作者，作者A（首先在作者列表中）和作者B（列表中的最后一次）。本文被送到外部裁判，但虽然正在审查，但编辑收到了作者一个陈述的电子邮件，即他/他没有阅读本文，并不知道提交并没有...... -
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Institution alleges that paper includes fabricated data
在2014年我们收到的通信研究rch Integrity Officer of an academic institution informing us that a paper, published in our journal in 2013, included falsified or fabricated data. We were informed that, following an investigation, they had determined that scientific misconduct had occurred. Within a few days we received a communication from one of the authors of the pa… -
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Possible omission of information essential for conclusions in a research paper
In 2013, our journal published a paper describing an observational study comparing two drugs (A and B) for the management of a chronic disease over a period of 10 years. The conclusion in the paper was that mortality was higher in group A (97 deaths) compared with the other group B (52 deaths) (hazard ratio 1.76, 1.22 to 2.53; P=0.003). This analysis was done after adjustment for a large number… -
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可能的自我抄袭和/或先前的出版物
2014年10月，它通过提交给我们的杂志的稿件之一来关注我们的杂志，以至于以前发表了同类文章（100％相同）在作者的网站上发表。提交提交人尚未使我们在提交文件中揭示本文在其网站上公开提供。两种不同但r ... -
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Institutional review board approval required?
We have a query regarding institutional review board (IRB) approval for a paper in production. The paper reports on a 2 year follow-up and cost-effectiveness evaluation for a treatment programme. A previously published paper reports on the original evaluation of the treatment programme. The authors have not obtained IRB approval for either body of research. The initial research wa… -
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Institutional review board approval needed?
研究生将一篇论文提交了一个纸张，并指出，在她的国家，除非研究是直接医疗，制度审查委员会（IRB）不需要或完成。该期刊拥有要求IRB对任何人类学科的研究批准的政策。这项研究正在寻找从业者和他们与特定诊断的学生的工作。编辑r ... -
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Authors’ contributions and involvement by medical communications company
The editorial office was contacted by someone who indicated that s/he has been working with a medical communications company on several manuscripts and has become concerned about the minimal extent of the authors’ contributions to manuscripts handled by the company. The work requested by the company goes beyond language editing, and involves developing parts of manuscripts into narrative on the… -
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可能违反审稿人的机密性
在拒绝纸张之后不久，经历了同行评审后，但在讨论手稿会议之前 - 提交人写信告诉我他被问及在国家会议上的演讲中“关于稿件”的问题。提交人说：“观众的成员从稿件的副本向我讨论了问题，而不是我给的谈话。我不得不请他说什么都没有...... -
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Fraud or sloppiness in a submitted manuscript
In June 2014 we received a manuscript by four authors from a well known research institution. They described a randomized trial comparing a variation in a procedure with standard care. In total, 200 patients were randomized, 100 to each arm. As measured by an interview, patients undergoing the new procedure were statistically significantly more content than those in the control arm. This manusc… -
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A case with no independent institution to investigate
我们是代表在我们期刊上发表的两项研究文章的最后一个作者（作者A）的律师联系。这两个条款由另一个作者（作者b）共同撰写，谁是相应作者。提交人声称不了解提交，并提出担忧，以至于在文章中报告的照片之前和之后的时间和日期是我...... -
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Image manipulation as a general practice
As managing editor, I view all manuscripts before they are assigned to an editor. Within a 4 week period, I have detected five manuscripts where photographs of either gels or plant materials were used twice or three times in the same manuscript. These manuscripts were immediately rejected. However, we are not convinced that these are cases of deliberate misleading of the scientific commu… -
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Coauthor fails to respond to request to confirm coauthorship
Prior to publication, our journal requires coauthors to respond to an email to confirm their authorship status and the author list. A coauthor did not respond to these emails, and when we contacted the corresponding author for help, s/he told us that his/her attempts to reach the coauthor have failed, and that s/he believed the coauthor was attempting to hold the paper hostage. According… -
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潜在的制造在初级研究中的初级研究中包括在出版物的荟萃分析中
Journal A has accepted a meta-analysis for publication. As is standard practice for many articles accepted in this journal, a key expert (Professor X) in the relevant field was invited to submit a commentary on the paper. Professor X expressed concerns to the journal that “we believe that some of the papers included in the review could be either fabricated or at best are heavily plagiarised”. T… -
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同行评审员在线发布机密草案
出版前不久，我收到了一个系统审查作者的电子邮件，告诉我，这份文件的一个版本，如第一次提交给同行评审日志的纸张上出现在美国的一个竞选团体网站上。很明显，网站上发布的文档版本与向期刊的同行评审员提供的版本相同。进一步的Investig ...... -
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Identifying patient information published in a figure
读者通过电子邮件发送了一个社会，将消息转发给日记职位，并指出他可以在向编辑中读取发布的字母中的图中的患者的名称。这封信在线发表3个月早些时候在线发表，刚刚出现在印刷品中;这是读者锯的打印版本。读者询问是否可以删除患者的姓名。期刊的作者指示ALR ...