Periodicals as Topic

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A review of journal policies for sharing research data

*Background:* Sharing data is a tenet of science, yet commonplace in only a few subdisciplines. Recognizing that a data sharing culture is unlikely to be achieved without policy guidance, some funders and journals have begun to request and require that investigators share their primary datasets with other researchers. The purpose of this study is to understand the current state of data sharing policies within journals, the features of journals which are associated with the strength of their data sharing policies, and whether the strength of data sharing policies impact the observed prevalence of data sharing. 

*Methods:* We investigated these relationships with respect to gene expression microarray data in the journals that most often publish studies about this type of data. We measured data sharing prevalence as the proportion of papers with submission links from NCBI's Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database. We conducted univariate and linear multivariate regressions to understand the relationship between the strength of data sharing policy and journal impact factor, journal subdiscipline, journal publisher (academic societies vs. commercial), and publishing model (open vs. closed access).

*Results:* Of the 70 journal policies, 18 (26%) made no mention of sharing publication-related data within their Instruction to Author statements. Of the 42 (60%) policies with a data sharing policy applicable to microarrays, we classified 18 (26% of 70) as moderately strong and 24 (34% of 70) as strong.
Existence of a data sharing policy was associated with the type of journal publisher: half of all commercial publishers had a policy compared to 82% of journals published by academic society. All four of the open-access journals had a data sharing policy. Policy strength was associated with impact factor: the journals with no data sharing policy, a weak policy, and a strong policy had respective median impact factors of 3.6, 4.5, and 6.0. Policy strength was positively associated with measured data sharing submission into the GEO database: the journals with no data sharing policy, a weak policy, and a strong policy had median data sharing prevalence of 11%, 19%, and 29% respectively.

*Conclusion:* This review and analysis begins to quantify the relationship between journal policies and data sharing outcomes and thereby contributes to assessing the incentives and initiatives designed to facilitate widespread, responsible, effective data sharing. 

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Creating a Medical Library Terms Taxonomy for Citation Analysis

Objective: To create a medical library terms taxonomy in order to find trends in the medical library literature. In order to explore trends in scholarly publishing by health sciences librarians in the last five years, we endeavored to examine keywords used in articles published in four health sciences library journals during this time. From our initial review we determined that: author-created keywords are not always based on a controlled vocabulary; MeSH subheadings do not include terms unique to the library field; and Library of Congress taxonomy is too broad. Thus, it was necessary to create a taxonomy by grouping similar keywords into categories in order to accurately identify trends. Methods: Citations from four health sciences library journals from 2016-2020 were exported from PubMed and EBSCO Academic Search Premier into EndNote X9. Keywords from all citations were exported from EndNote as a text file and then imported into Microsoft Excel. Pivot tables were used to determine the number of times each keyword was used and to aggregate identical keywords. A team of six librarians with a variety of skill sets and backgrounds reviewed each keyword to determine how to categorize and group terms to create a taxonomy. Results: 8,806 keywords from the journals were downloaded into spreadsheets and aggregated. Pivot tables were used to combine identical terms resulting in 2,801 unique keywords which are currently being categorized to complete the taxonomy. Conclusion: While choosing keywords without use of a controlled vocabulary when submitting a manuscript allows for flexibility and customization, and might result in better retrieval during natural language searching, what we discovered through this project is that choosing keywords without the use of a controlled vocabulary makes it difficult to see trends and to conduct a bibliometric analysis

AMP-Student: Challenges for Scientific Publishing

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A Vibrant Community of Readers, Authors and Reviewers: A Medical Editors' Necessity and a Challenge for Medical Education

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Brazilian Scientific Journals in Surgery: quality control in the abstract structure of non-experimental articles

PURPOSE: To evaluate the quality of abstracts of original non-experimental research articles in Brazilian Journals in Surgery. METHODS: Convenience sample of 471 abstracts of original research articles from six Brazilian surgical journals indexed in Thomson Reuters (ISI) Web of Knowledge. The quality of abstracts was measured against a checklist of eight evaluation criteria, which were divided into 32 categories. The total score for each abstract was obtained by summing the score of all criteria present. The overall mean score was also determined. RESULTS: The overall mean score of abstract quality was that of a good abstract. Most of the abstracts contained some information from each of the eight basic categories of an abstract. All abstracts were structured ones. CONCLUSION: The overall quality, for abstracts of original articles of six Brazilian non-experimental journals in surgery, was classified as good.Rio de Janeiro Federal University School of Medicine Department of SurgeryUNIFESP Central LibraryUniversity City of São PauloUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Biblioteca do Campus São Paulo, EPM, São Paulo, BrazilSciEL

A survey on the Journal of EAHIL : results and considerations

A survey addressed to Journal of EAHIL readers was carried out in December 2014 - January 2015. The aim was to gather opinions and ideas and, on the basis of the results, to further develop JEAHIL to better serve the needs of all EAHIL members. We got 109 answers with lots of ideas and feedback. It was a pleasure to see how appreciated the Journal is, both as a tool for sharing information and as a way to create sense of community. The critical comments were few, but equally valuable. So thank you all the respondents for your contribution

Tutorial do Endnote web para o BJCVS/RBCCV

At present, many useful tools for reference management are available for use. They can be either off-line softwares or accessible Websites to all users in the internet. Their target is to facilitate the production of scientific text. But, to accomplish that, the featured bibliographic style should be effectively inserted, and the program has to be free. Here in this tutorial, we present Endnote Web®, a bibliographic reference management program comprising these two requirements: it contains the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery reference format and its use is free for charge after sign-in in IP registered terminal in Web of Science®.302246253Diversas ferramentas de gerenciamento de referências bibliográficas estão disponíveis tanto por meio de softwares quanto websites acessíveis para todos utilizadores da Internet. Todas têm um só objetivo: facilitar a produção do texto científico, mas para que isso seja possível necessitam que o estilo bibliográfico da revista em questão esteja disponível e o programa seja grátis. Apresentamos neste tutorial o Endnote Web®, um programa de gerenciamento de referências bibliográficas que cumpre esses dois quesitos: possui o formato de referências exigido pela Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular e tem utilização grátis, após cadastro em terminal com IP cadastrado na Web of Science®