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Ann Robinson’s research reviews – 24 September 2018

27 Sep, 2018 | 22:43h | UTC

Ann Robinson’s research reviews, 24 September 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Ann Robinson reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

 


Congratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere

27 Sep, 2018 | 22:42h | UTC

Congratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free) (via @kennylinafp)

“Researchers should embrace negative results instead of accentuating the positive, which is one of several biases that can lead to bad science.”

 


Diagnostic Expansion in Clinical Trials: Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, Cancer Recurrence, and Metastases May Not be the Hard Endpoints you Thought They Were

21 Sep, 2018 | 02:00h | UTC

Diagnostic expansion in clinical trials: myocardial infarction, stroke, cancer recurrence, and metastases may not be the hard endpoints you thought they were – The BMJ (free for a limited period)

 


Meta-Analyses Were Supposed to end Scientific Debates. Often, They Only Cause More Controversy

21 Sep, 2018 | 01:52h | UTC

Meta-analyses were supposed to end scientific debates. Often, they only cause more controversy – Science (free) (via @Onisillos)

 


Zackary Berger’s Journal Reviews – 17 September 2018

20 Sep, 2018 | 19:37h | UTC

Zackary Berger’s journal reviews, 17 September 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

Zackary Berger reviews the latest research from the top medical journals.

 


Opinion: Medicine’s Financial Contamination

20 Sep, 2018 | 19:37h | UTC

Medicine’s Financial Contamination – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

 


Let’s Stop the Burning and the Bleeding at Cochrane—There’s Too Much at Stake

20 Sep, 2018 | 19:27h | UTC

Let’s stop the burning and the bleeding at Cochrane—there’s too much at stake – Ray Moynihan in The BMJ Opinion (free)

Related: Evidence-based medicine group in turmoil after expulsion of co-founder – Science (free) AND Trish Greenhalgh: The Cochrane Collaboration—what crisis? – The BMJ Opinion (free) AND Cochrane – A sinking ship? – BMJ EBM Spotlight (free) AND Turmoil erupts over expulsion of member from leading evidence-based medicine group – STAT (free)

See also: Statement from Cochrane’s Governing Board (free)

 


Ig Nobel Win for Kidney Stone Removing Roller-coaster

20 Sep, 2018 | 19:21h | UTC

Ig Nobel win for kidney stone removing roller-coaster – BBC (free)

Related: Ig Nobel prizes honor do-it-yourself colonoscopies, a curious use for postage stamps, and other peculiar research – Science (free)

 


Patients vs. Paywalls: Is the U.S. Ready for Open-access Publishing?

20 Sep, 2018 | 19:19h | UTC

Patients vs. paywalls: Is the U.S. ready for open-access publishing? – STAT (free)

Related: Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free – The Guardian (free) AND cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 (free Statement and commentaries)

 


Thousands of Scientists Publish a Paper Every Five Days

14 Sep, 2018 | 02:25h | UTC

Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days – Nature (free)

Related: Some scientists publish more than 70 papers a year. Here’s how—and why—they do it – Science (free)

 


Opinion – Scientific Publishing is a Rip-off. We Fund the Research – It Should be Free

14 Sep, 2018 | 02:26h | UTC

Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free – The Guardian (free)

Related: cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 (free Statement and commentaries)

 


Opinion – Screening: How Overdiagnosis and Other Harms can Undermine the Benefits

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:59h | UTC

Screening: How overdiagnosis and other harms can undermine the benefits – Health News Review (free)

“All screening programs do harm, some do good as well.”

 


Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: August 2018

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:58h | UTC

Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali: August 2018 – eCancer News (free)

 


Alex Nowbar’s Research Reviews, 10 September 2018

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:57h | UTC

Alex Nowbar’s research reviews, 10 September 2018 – The BMJ (free)

 


Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:32h | UTC

Top Cancer Researcher Fails to Disclose Corporate Financial Ties in Major Research Journals – ProPublica (free)

 


2018 Global State of Peer Review

14 Sep, 2018 | 01:30h | UTC

Peer reviewers unmasked: largest global survey reveals trends – Nature News (free)

Original Report: 2018 Global State of Peer Review (free)

 


cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020

6 Sep, 2018 | 02:59h | UTC

cOAlition S: Making Open Access a Reality by 2020 – Science Europe (free)

See also: 10 principles of Plan S (free PDF) AND Press Release (free PDF)

Commentaries: Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions – Nature News (free) AND ‘Plan S’ and ‘cOAlition S’ – Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications – European Commission (free) AND Science without publication paywalls: cOAlition S for the realisation of full and immediate Open Access – PLOS Biology (free)

“…free access to all scientific publications from publicly funded research is a moral right of citizens.” (from European Comission)

 


Study: Evaluating the Replicability of Social Science Experiments

31 Aug, 2018 | 02:50h | UTC

Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015 – Nature Human Behavior (free for a limited period)

Commentaries: More social science studies just failed to replicate. Here’s why this is good – VOX (free) AND High-profile journals put to reproducibility test – Nature News (free) AND ‘Replication crisis’ spurs reforms in how science studies are done – ScienceNews (free) AND The Science Behind Social Science Gets Shaken Up—Again – WIRED (Free) AND In Psychology And Other Social Sciences, Many Studies Fail The Reproducibility Test – NPR (free)

“We replicated 21 social science experiments in Science or Nature. We succeeded with 13. Replication effect sizes were half of originals.” (via @BrianNosek see Tweet)

 


Study: Financial Conflicts of Interest Among Oncologist Authors of Reports of Clinical Drug Trials

31 Aug, 2018 | 02:34h | UTC

Financial Conflicts of Interest Among Oncologist Authors of Reports of Clinical Drug Trials – JAMA Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Financial disclosure lacking in publication of clinical trials – eCancer News (free) AND Oncologist-Authors Often Do Not Fully Disclose Financial Relationships with Pharmaceutical Companies – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND One-third of oncologist authors fail to disclosure industry payments – Healio News (free registration required)

 


Case-Control Studies: Using “Real-world” Evidence to Assess Association

31 Aug, 2018 | 02:01h | UTC

Guide to Statistics and Methods: Case-Control Studies: Using “Real-world” Evidence to Assess Association – JAMA (free for a limited period)

 


Zackary Berger’s journal reviews, 28 August 2018

31 Aug, 2018 | 02:02h | UTC

Zackary Berger’s journal reviews, 28 August 2018 – The BMJ Opinion (free)

 


Opinion: Publish Peer Reviews

31 Aug, 2018 | 01:47h | UTC

Publish peer reviews – Nature News (free)

“Jessica K. Polka and colleagues call on journals to sign a pledge to make reviewers’ anonymous comments part of the official scientific record.”

 


Viewpoint: The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research

23 Aug, 2018 | 23:48h | UTC

The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research – JAMA (free for a limited period)

“…the emerging picture of nutritional epidemiology is difficult to reconcile with good scientific principles. The field needs radical reform.”

 


Perspective: This Drug Is Safe and Effective. Wait. Compared With What?

23 Aug, 2018 | 22:59h | UTC

This Drug Is Safe and Effective. Wait. Compared With What? – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)

 


Perspective: How Unpaywall is Transforming Open Science

17 Aug, 2018 | 02:21h | UTC

How Unpaywall is transforming open science – Nature News (free)

Related: Unlocking paywalled research papers (legally) (free commentaries) AND Half of papers searched for online are free to read (free)

We have been using the Unpaywall Extension for a while, and it is indeed a handy tool to find free versions (entirely legal) of paywalled articles.

 


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