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Lígia Gabrielle dos Santos1, Ana Carolina da Costa e Fonseca1, Claudia Giuliano Bica1
1Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
|January 29, 2015
Summary
This study developed an Ethics Requirement Score for healthcare journals. The score revealed no correlation between ethical publication standards and a journal's Impact Factor.
Area of Science:
- Medical Ethics
- Bibliometrics
- Scientific Publishing
Background:
- Assessing ethical standards in health-related scientific journals is crucial.
- Existing metrics may not fully capture publication ethics.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze ethical standards in health-related scientific journals.
- To develop an Ethics Requirement Score (ERS) as a bibliometric index for evaluating publication ethics criteria.
Main Methods:
- Analyzed healthcare journals from the Journal of Citation Reports™ 2010 database.
- Evaluated parameters including IRB approval, Declaration of Helsinki, plagiarism policies, informed consent, confidentiality, clinical trial registration, conflict of interest, and funding sources.
Main Results:
- Foreign journals had a higher Impact Factor than Brazilian journals.
- No significant difference was observed in the Ethics Requirement Score between journal groups.
- The Ethics Requirement Score showed no correlation with the Impact Factor.
Conclusions:
- Journal Impact Factor is not associated with adherence to ethical publication standards.
- Ethical publication requirements in biomedical journals are independent of journal scope or comprehensiveness.
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