Until the results of all clinical trials are published, patients everywhere...
The best available evidence suggests that between a third and a half of all clinical trials conducted have not gone on to be published. Worse than that, trials with positive results are about twice as...
View ArticleRetractions – Practices and Penalties
In the past decade we have seen a sharp increase in retraction notices appearing in the Web of Science (Van Noorden). The reasons behind the increase are a matter of debate. Van Noorden notes that...
View ArticleHealthy Evidence: A Dose of Knowledge and Objectivity
Sense About Science has teamed up with NHS Choices Behind the Headlines and Health Unlocked to launch a new online forum to help people better understand the science behind health claims and to connect...
View ArticlePublication ethics: the editorial office perspective
To mark the forthcoming launch of Wiley Publishing’s second edition of its Best practice guidelines on publication ethics: A publisher’s perspective, 2ed., I have been asked to post an editorial office...
View ArticlePublication ethics: a journal editor’s perspective
This is the second in our series of recent blog posts on publishing ethics to mark the launch this month of Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics: A Publisher’s Perspective, 2ed.....
View ArticleOur top 10 tips for navigating ethical challenges in scholarly publishing
Today, Wiley presents a comprehensive update to the Wiley publication ethics guidelines first published in 2006, with the release of the Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics: A Publisher’s...
View ArticleMy crash course in publication ethics
Here we continue our series of posts on publishing ethics to coincide with the recent release of Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics: A Publisher’s Perspective, 2ed. The post below...
View ArticleScientific integrity
Scientific integrityAre scholarly publications any more reliable or trustworthy than the general press? Does the publishing process build in sufficient checks and balances or is it remarkably flawed?...
View ArticleWiley takes measures to target plagiarism
Wiley takes measures to target plagiarismWith one in three editors encountering plagiarism on a regular basis, it remains a real problem in scientific publishing, and open access is no exception. And...
View ArticlePublishing and ethics: what’s all the fuss about?
Publishing and ethics: what’s all the fuss about?We hope that you and our other readers – editors, scholars, researchers and practitioners from the multidisciplinary communities we serve – are finding...
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