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Published on: September 20, 2018

Ethics requirements and impact factor.

Philippe Charlier1, Valérie Bridoux, Laurence Watier

  • 1Department of Medical Ethicsand Legal Medicine, University Paris 5, 45 Saints-Pe`res street, F-75005 Paris, France. ph_charlier@yahoo.fr

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Higher impact factor medical journals demonstrate stronger ethics requirements. This study suggests standardizing ethics guidelines across all biomedical journals to match higher standards for improved research integrity.

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A Metadata Extraction Approach for Clinical Case Reports to Enable Advanced Understanding of Biomedical Concepts
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Published on: September 20, 2018

Area of Science:

  • Medical Ethics
  • Biomedical Research
  • Journal Publishing

Background:

  • Clinical research publications must adhere to ethical principles and biomedical law.
  • Variations in ethical standards may exist across medical journals.
  • Journal impact factor (IF) is a measure of journal influence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between journal impact factor and the display of ethics requirements.
  • To assess the ethical standards in high-impact versus low-impact biomedical journals.
  • To advocate for standardized ethical requirements in scientific publishing.

Main Methods:

  • Examined ethics requirements on the websites of 60 medical journals in 2009.
  • Compared 30 journals with IF >10 to 30 journals with IF <10.
  • Analyzed the instructions to authors for ethical guidelines.

Main Results:

  • A direct relationship was observed between a biomedical journal's impact factor and its ethics requirements.
  • Leading medical journals (IF >10) exhibited more robust ethics requirements.
  • Journals with lower impact factors (IF <10) showed less comprehensive ethical guidelines.

Conclusions:

  • Journal impact factor correlates with the rigor of ethical standards presented.
  • There is a need to elevate and standardize ethics requirements in lower-impact journals.
  • International standardization to higher ethical benchmarks is recommended for all biomedical publications.