This “In The Know” article shares information about:
- Newly updated ICMJE recommendations
- Publications by ISMPP members covering parallel publication, plain language summaries, and a value-based metric framework
- Abstracts accepted for presentation at the 18th Annual Meeting of ISMPP, May 9-11, 2022
- Posters presented at the 2022 European Meeting of ISMPP, held virtually January 25-26
ICMJE Issues Newly Updated Recommendations
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) issued a new, updated version of the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals on May 20, 2022.
The version includes three main updates related to:
- Reporting on race and ethnicity of study participants, as well as how the study sample is representative of the larger study population
- Results/data contained in assessment reports published by regulatory agencies should not be considered duplicate publication
Parallel Publication of Articles and Congress Presentations
The article titled “Parallel publication of articles and congress presentations for industry-sponsored research: strategies for success”1 was published in Current Medical Research and Opinion (CRMO) in May 2022. The article reports recommendations for successful parallel publication of articles and congress presentations based on insights from journal editors and congress officials and presents three case studies of successful parallel publication. Key takeaways include the importance of timelines, communication, and adaptability. All the publication authors are ISMPP members: Meera Kodukulla, Charles I. Rosenblum, Nataline Meinhardt, Rhyomi C. Sellnow, Todd Parker, and Kris Schuler. Access the article for more information.
1Kristine Wilhelm Schuler, Meera I. Kodukulla, Charles I. Rosenblum, Nataline Meinhardt, Rhyomi C. Sellnow & Todd Parker (2022) Parallel publication of articles and congress presentations for industry-sponsored research: strategies for success, Current Medical Research and Opinion, 38:6, 875-880, DOI: 10.1080/03007995.2022.2078102
Putting Plain Language Summaries into Perspective
The article titled “Putting plain language summaries into perspective”2 was published in Current Medical Research and Opinion (CRMO) in April 2022. Five day-to-day users of plain language summaries were interviewed to assess users’ opinions and experiences with plain language summaries. Both publication authors are ISMPP members: Caitlin Edgell and Adeline Rosenberg. Access the article for more information.
2Caitlin Edgell & Adeline Rosenberg (2022) Putting plain language summaries into perspective, Current Medical Research and Opinion, 38:6, 871-874, DOI: 10.1080/03007995.2022.2058812
Introducing the EMPIRE Index
The article titled “Introducing the EMPIRE Index: A novel, value-based metric framework to measure the impact of medical publications”3 was published in PLOS ONE in April 2022. The article reports on the efficacy of the EMPIRE (EMpirical Publication Impact and Reach Evaluation) Index, a value-based, multi-component metric framework for medical publications. Both publication authors are ISMPP members: Avishek Pal and Tomas Rees. Access the article for more information.
3Pal A, Rees TJ (2022) Introducing the EMPIRE Index: A novel, value-based metric framework to measure the impact of medical publications. PLOS ONE 17(4): e0265381. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265381
52 Abstracts Presented at ISMPP’s 18th Annual Meeting
Fifty-two (52) abstracts were accepted and presented at ISMPP’s 18th Annual Meeting, held May 9-11, 2022, in Washington, DC. Of these, 50 abstracts were poster presentations, and 2 were oral presentations. The abstracts cover many key industry topics, such as artificial intelligence, effective communication, social media, standards and guidelines, and equity, diversity, and inclusion. The abstracts were published as a supplement in Current Medical Research and Opinion (CMRO) on May 9, 2022, and the posters are available to Society members in the 18th Annual Meeting Archive on the ISMPP website.
| Poster # | Poster Title | Poster Authors |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | ||
| 1 | Can AI be used to improve the efficiency of citation screening? (ENCORE) | Christian Eichinger, Obaro Evuarherhe, Lisa Law, Marta Radwan, Carly Sellick, Tanina Cadwell, Mike Hugo, Kim Wager |
| 2 | Current and anticipated applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical affairs | Matt Lewis, Matt Booth, Scott Brown |
| 3 | Effectiveness of artificial intelligence-powered translation tools in developing medical publications: an assessment of Japanese-to-English translation | Mami Hirano, Survashish Chattopadhayay, Yukti Bharwani, Aditi Bhattacharya |
| 4 | Intelligent literature monitoring with integrated artificial intelligence: transforming literature search and publication planning in real-time workflows (ENCORE) | Matt Lewis, Richard Graves, Tim Mikhelashvili, Scott Navarro, Matt Booth, Ricky Li, Nga Tong, Paul Walden, Robert B Geller |
| 5 | Summarizing scientific publications: integrating AI into our daily work | Niina Nuottamo, Rosie Morland, Dan Smith, Remon van den Broek |
| Access and Assessment of Scientific Research | ||
| 6 | Current trends in pharmaceutical industry-affiliated medRxiv and bioRxiv preprints (ENCORE) | Susan Wieting, Samuel Bestall, Kim Wager, Valérie Philippon |
| Open Access | ||
| 7 | Measuring open access to pharmaceutical company-supported articles – an improved and semi-automated method (ENCORE) | Elin Bevan, Tim Koder, Valérie Philippon, Slavka Baronikova, Larisa Miller, William Gattrell, Tomas Rees |
| 8 | Open access publishing at Bristol Myers Squibb | Shannon Stahl, Sonia Schweers, Brandon Boyarsky |
| 33 | Shared decision-making publications: surging, but not (fully) shared | Amanda Boughey, Dawn Lobban, Karen Woolley |
| Policy | ||
| 9 | A survey of funders’ and institutions’ needs for understanding researchers’ open research practices | Sara Rouhi, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Lauren Cadwallader |
| 10 | COVID-19-imposed medical communications agency work-from-home policies: what has been their impact? | Tamalette Loh, Laura Valenzo, Tanja Torbica, Chris Barnes, Denise Bonen |
| Contemporary Topics | ||
| 11 | The evolving face of India’s medical communications professionals: Findings from a survey-based questionnaire | Vaishali Pawar, Namrata Singh, Md. Najeeb Ashraf, Vivek Khanna, Avishek Pal, Amit Bhat |
| 14 | Real-life factors influencing journal selection | Nisha Sheikh, David Gothard, Anna Timbrell, Elise Blankenship |
| 15 | What makes stakeholders trust pharma-generated scientific content and how can the industry do better? | Clarinda Cerejo, Kwisha Shah, Prerna Motwani |
| Plain Language Summaries | ||
| 12 | Investigation of the use of publication extenders before and during the COVID-19 pandemic | Laura L McCormick, Anna Frangou, Julianne Hatfield, Sean T Anderson, Ben Caldwell |
| 35 | Do healthcare professionals really value plain language summaries? (ENCORE) | Dawn Lobban, Jacqui Oliver, Marissa Buttaro, David Falleni, Melissa McGrath |
| 36 | Key insights from patient organizations for developing effective plain language summaries of medical publications | Remon van den Broek, Patrick Crowley, Carolyn Ellenberger, Jennifer LF Port, Tom Rouwette, Saba Choudhary, Nicky Dekker, Anna Georgieva |
| 37 | Plain language summary publications: the need for standardized guidance | Nicole Coolbaugh, Kate Katsaval, Julie B O’Grady, Beth Reichard, Daniel R Turkewitz, Philip Sjostedt |
| Medical/Scientific Communications | ||
| 13 | Medical writing career awareness and the way forward: An online survey (ENCORE) | Pinki Rajeev, Saurabh Shinde |
| Digital and Innovation | ||
| 16 | Digital innovation through a web-based tool improves efficiency in publication query processes | Megan Weigel, Susan Hannah, Susan Nastasee |
| 17 | Evaluating video abstract visibility and content in peer-reviewed literature‡ | Aarthi Gobinath, Deirdre Rodeberg, Ann Overton, Rebecca Slager, Jeffrey Stumpf |
| 18 | Which types of digital features have the most impact on article accesses? A pilot study | Niamh Clarke, Charley Lai, Hannah Payne, Caroline Halford |
| Effective Communication | ||
| 19 | Awareness and use of scientific communication platforms: findings from a mid-sized pharmaceutical company employee survey | Elise Blankenship, Hollie Rawlings, David Gothard, Nisha Sheikh |
| 20 | Efficient processes in developing novel communication channels in publications: a podcast article case study | Caroline Halford, Lydia Alborn, Colin Horsch, Lana Vegman, Meredith Whitaker |
| 21 | Future-forward approach to optimizing consumption of publication content† | Jessica B Bessler, William Fazzone, Adam Ruth, William Miranda, Jim Lothrop, Nancy Sladicka |
| 22 | Insights on enhanced publication content in journals: a survey of editors/publishers | Rachel Skillen, Elizabeth A Whann, Raj C Patel, Liza O’Rourke, Neil Venn, Matthieu Larochelle |
| 23 | The linguistics of innovation: does standardization of a biotech’s first-in-class product’s lexicon in publications matter? | Claudia Piano, Matthew Lewis, Samuel Falsetti, Rachel Hatfield, Alex Taylor, Alex Vargas, David Dible, Matthew Booth |
| 24 | Maximizing comprehension and minimizing ambiguity in medical communications | James Williams, Katherine Chaytor, Holly Bradley, Alex Taylor, Max Brady, Elaine Ferguson, Matthew Booth |
| 25 | Medical information consumption and sharing practices in lysosomal diseases – a clinician perspective (ENCORE) | Rosalie Gadiot, Eline Hanekamp, Marie Diamond, Sandra Sirrs, Tom Rouwette |
| Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion | ||
| 26 | Correcting the record to reflect name changes for transgender authors | Kerri Hebard-Massey |
| 27 | Gender differences in how authors “hype” the importance of their research* | Ira Mills, Suze Kundu, Bob JA Schijvenaars |
| Industry-Sponsored Publications | ||
| 28 | An assessment to determine disclosure of CMPP accreditation in pharmaceutical industry-sponsored medical publications (ENCORE) | Ben Caldwell, Danielle McDougall, Fiona Goodwin |
| 29 | ORCID uptake in pharma-sponsored research | Paul Farrow, Caitlin Edgell, Sarah Sabir, Shawna Sadler, James Munday, Christine Vanderlinden, Santosh Mysore |
| Patient Centricity | ||
| 30 | An asynchronous virtual advisory board to discuss scientific publications with patients/caregivers/advocates | Cheryl Truchan, Vivian Blunk, Verna Welch |
| 31 | Bringing scientific congresses to patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) through plain language podcasts: a case study | Simon Stones, Jennifer Ghith, Sarah McSorley, Hazel Ward, Lydia Alborn, Dawn Lobban |
| 32 | Measuring the quality of patient engagement in a patient-led and co-authored analysis of the lived experience of a rare disease | Jacqui Oliver, Veronica Porkess, Sarah McSorley, Dawn Lobban |
| 34 | Understanding patient centricity, progress made, and barriers encountered: a survey of industry professionals | Laura L Perry, Clarinda Cerejo, Kwisha Shah, Prerna Motwani |
| Real World Evidence | ||
| 38 | Challenges and opportunities in communicating value evidence (ENCORE) | Thomas Drake, Patti Peeples, Eileen McCaffrey |
| 39 | Reporting of patient-reported outcomes in the peer-reviewed literature from the mid-1990s to present day | Lisa Feder, Samantha Rivera, Larry Radican |
| Scientific Congresses | ||
| 40 | Congress virtual plenaries and their potential impact on oncology publication planning | Victoria Enwemadu, Caroline Ojaimi, Marcel Kuttab, Matthew Strawbridge, Syrah Khan, Helen Johns |
| 41 | Digital supplementary material: physician preferences at virtual and hybrid structured scientific conferences | Nithya Pothireddy*, Radhika Chunduru*, Michael Toscani *Joint first authors |
| 42 | Extending the reach of virtual scientific congress posters by publishing poster summaries (ENCORE) | Ishani Patel, Gill Hill, Ericka Bueno, Marianne Jenal-Eyholzer, Sunita Setlur, Susan Wieting |
| 44 | Trends in the evolving virtual congress era: considerations for presentation development | Nicole Parker, Rajni Parthasarathy, Allison Vetter, Sally Alexandroff, Avishek Pal, Jessica Litvan |
| Social Media, Digital | ||
| 43 | Tracking the use and reach of congress publication extenders | William Sinkins, Louise Adamson, Katheryn Mazzilli, Paul Kaiser, Delphine Dubois |
| 45 | Correlation between journal impact factor and Twitter engagement | Krystina M Neuman, Jennifer L Fetting, Tania R Iqbal, Tracy H Johnson, Judy Fallon, Rhonda Croxton |
| 46 | Using social media listening to inform strategic communications planning | Sarah Brown, Clem Hindley, Danielle Turner, Hannah Hans |
| Standards and Guidelines | ||
| 47 | Assessing the patterns of journal peer review and potential impact on best practice in the medical publications industry (ENCORE) | Sarah Lambert, Ben Caldwell, Emma White |
| 48 | Improved adherence in conducting and reporting of systematic review, meta-analyses and network meta-analyses – need of the hour? | Amit Bhat, Roopashree Subbaiah, Anwesha Mandal, Sumeet Ahluwalia |
| 49 | Reporting trends of terminated COVID-19 trials (TCTs): observations from the registry audit | Divya G Patel, Vatsal A Chhaya, Kapil M Khambholja |
| 50 | Reviewing scientific publications to protect the privacy of clinical study participants (ENCORE)** | Colin McKinnon, Friedrich Maritsch, Ingeborg Cil, Nicole Baumgartner, Jesse Potash, Borislava Pavlova, Valérie Philippon |
| Oral Presentations | ||
| Climate change commitments of leading pharmaceutical companies and their implications for the supply chain | Amy Booth, Christopher C Winchester | |
| Promoting inclusive language in biomedical publishing | Carolyn H Farnsworth, Manisit Das |
* Winner, Best Original Research
** Winner, Best Practice
† Winner, Best Visual Communication
‡ Winner, Publication Star
45 Posters Presented at the 2022 European Meeting
Forty-five (45) posters were presented at ISMPP’s 2022 European Meeting, held virtually on January 25-26, 2022. The presentations covered relevant topics, such as social media, enhanced content, patient advocacy, and plain language summaries. The abstracts were published as a supplement in CMRO on May 9, 2022. The posters are available to ISMPP members in the 2022 European Meeting Archive on the ISMPP website.
| Poster # | Poster Title | Poster Authors |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | ||
| 15 | Can AI be used to improve the efficiency of citation screening? (ENCORE) | Christian Eichinger, Obaro Evuarherhe, Lisa Law, Marta Radwan, Carly Sellick, Tanina Cadwell, Mike Hugo, Kim Wager |
| 43 | Automation in medical writing: views and preferences of medical writers based on open poll | Kapil Khambholja, Vatsal Chhaya |
| 45 | Intelligent literature monitoring with integrated artificial intelligence: transforming literature search and publication planning in real-time workflows | Matt Lewis, Richard Graves, Tim Mikhelashvili, Scott Navarro, Matt Booth, Ricky Li, Nga Tong, Paul Walden, Robert B Geller |
| Digital / Social Media | ||
| 5 | Are pharmaceutical companies using social media to publicize journal articles? An informatics approach | Tomas Rees, Kim Wager, William Gattrell |
| 14 | Effect of simultaneous congress presentation and journal publication on media interest and article impact: a case study | Heather Lang, Jo Gordon, William Gattrell |
| 17 | Evolving medical communications in a virtual world | Julliana Newman, Lars Lundblad |
| 33 | ‘@ISMPP: Embracing Twitter, creating (more) opportunities? | Andy Shepherd, Kathryn Coles, Brian Grice, Karen L. Woolley |
| 34 | Should key opinion leaders have a role in amplification of peer-reviewed publications in the digital space? | Godfrey Lisk, Paul Kaiser, Ruthline Laylor, Delphine Dubois |
| 35 | Characterization of the medical publications landscape in digital health during the 2010–2020 period‡ | Lindsey Weedon, Frank Biegun, Matt Gooding, Emma Reynolds, Laura McGovern |
| 40 | Assessing the impact of Twitter on rare disease manuscript citations and Altmetric attention scores | Claire Hews, Marielle Brown, Isabel Katz, Sarah J Clements |
| Enhanced Content / Publication Extenders | ||
| 4 | Impact of journal article press releases on reader engagement: a case study | Caroline Halford, Lydia Alborn, Alison Chisholm, William Gattrell |
| 7 | Enhanced support for enhanced content | Emma Conran, Constantinos Bezos, Anne-Marie Quirke |
| 11 | Infographics in medical communication: trends of artwork use in peer-reviewed manuscripts | Jonathan Ghesquière, Maxime Bessières, Lyes Derouiche, Carole Desiron, Amandine Radziejwoski, Maud Boyer |
| 22 | Healthcare professionals’ views on enhanced publication content: are authors doing enough? | Sarah Perry, Pippa Hadland, Emily Bruce, Sarah Payne, Natasha Littleton |
| 24 | Perspectives on journal selection criteria from researchers working in a medium-sized biotech company | John Gonzalez, Jane Bryant, Kristian Clausen, Sarah Graham, Jessica Naddafy-Clark, Helen Woodroof, Slávka Baróniková |
| 25 | A survey on perceptions and the use of publication extenders within pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries | Michelle Utton-Mishra, Sophie Briggs, Rachel O’Meara, Kerry Acheson, Valerie Moss |
| 29 | Enhanced content and social media activity: a case study from ASCO 2021 | Rebecca Helson, Andrew Jones, Mei Lye, Rachel Patel, Catherine Risebro, John Matthew |
| 37 | The effect of accompanying publication extenders on publication metrics in sets of similar oncology papers | Moamen Hammad, Rachel O’Meara, Kerry Acheson |
| Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion | ||
| 1 | Development of guidelines to mitigate racial and ethnic bias in medical communications | Nichola Gokool, Malini Raj, Dave Gallienne |
| 31 | Availability of diversity and inclusion guidelines across a selection of biomedical journals | Lois Hawkins, Helen Keyworth, Stephen Salem, Islay Steele, Katie Wilson, Priya Sagoo |
| Good Publication Practice | ||
| 9 | Probing the obsolescence of web references in the recent peer-reviewed medical literature* | Benjamin Lemaire, Fanélie Bauer, Elena Chaves Rodriguez, Jonathan Ghesquière, Amandine Radziejwoski, Maud Boyer |
| 28 | Assessing the rigour of journal peer review and potential impact on best practice in the medical publications industry | Sarah Lambert, Ben Caldwell, Emma White |
| 30 | An assessment to determine disclosure of ISMPP CMPP accreditation in industry-sponsored medical publications (ENCORE) | Ben Caldwell, Danielle J McDougall, Fiona Goodwin |
| 32 | A best-practices strategy for avoiding predatory journals and congresses | Louise Adamson, Jim Cozzarin, Ray Hunziker, Sam Kew, Jeff Hannah, Kristen Oeltjen-Bruns, Heidi Reinholdt, Andy Shaw |
| HEOR | ||
| 2 | Challenges and opportunities in communicating value evidence (ENCORE) | Thomas Drake, Patti Peeples, Eileen McCaffrey |
| 3 | Preferences of payer audiences for retaining ‘purity of evidence’ in a digitally evolving environment | Jenny Blackham, Michelle Collins, George Miles, Sue O’Leary, Siobhan Peterson |
| Medical Writing | ||
| 21 | Medical writing field awareness and the way forward: an online survey | Pinki Rajeev, Saurabh Shinde |
| Open Access | ||
| 10 | Journal rankings and open access options | Pablo Pons, William Dolben, Laura Pérez |
| 41 | Measuring open access to pharmaceutical company-supported articles – an improved and semi-automated method† | Elin Bevan, Tim Koder, Valérie Philippon, Slavka Baronikova, Larisa Miller, William Gattrell, Tomas Rees |
| Patient Advocacy | ||
| 13 | Reviewing scientific publications to protect the privacy of clinical study participants (ENCORE) | Colin McKinnon, Friedrich Maritsch, Ingeborg Cil, Nicole Baumgartner, Jesse Potash, Borislava Pavlova, Valérie Philippon |
| 20 | Barriers and solutions to working with patient authors: a survey of publication professionals | Valerie Moss, Jon Hoggard, Emma Sutcliffe |
| 42 | Do rare disease patients have access to the information they need to make informed healthcare decisions? | Saoirse Moriarty, Emma Phillips, Julia Stevens, Carolyn Walsh, Sarah J Clements |
| Plain Language Summaries | ||
| 8 | Do plain language summaries encourage readers to access your publication? A pilot study* | Steve Winter, Caroline Halford, Mel West, Matt Evans |
| 12 | Prevalence and characteristics of plain language summaries indexed in PubMed | William Gattrell, Kim Wager, Nisha Sheikh, Alison Chisholm |
| 16 | Seek and you will [potentially] find: the impact of plain language summary accessibility on engagement and wider dissemination | Simon Foulcer, David Sheppard, Nichola Gokool |
| 18 | Plain language summaries at congresses: a pharma perspective | Pippa Hadland, Whitney Dunton, Jennifer Eykelenboom, Kyoko Kelly, Sarah Perry, Aliya Seward |
| 23 | Do healthcare professionals really value plain language summaries? | Dawn Lobban, Jacqui Oliver, Marissa Buttaro, David Falleni, Melissa McGrath |
| 44 | Analysis of reach for different formats of plain language summaries | Shilpa Khobragade*, Pippa Perrett*, Craig Burgess, Heather Smith, Damian Eade, Aree Cheshire, Lorraine Law *Joint first authors |
| Preprints | ||
| 6 | Inconsistent and misleading preprint citation persists despite recent guidance | Tony Ferrar, Viola Kooij, Natasha Daoud, Maria Haughton |
| 27 | Consensus among journal guidelines and the AMWA-EMWA-ISMPP joint position statement (JPS) on citing preprints in medical publications* | Lisa Jolly, Nichola Gokool, Kamely Hayes, Sophie Trinder, Anita Pandi, Melissa Mason, Lana Packham, Shalini Murthy |
| 38 | Current trends in pharmaceutical industry-affiliated medRxiv and bioRxiv preprints ¶ | Susan Wieting, Samuel Bestall, Kim Wager, Valérie Philippon |
| Virtual Conference | ||
| 19 | Congress engagement and publication planning in the digital age – a survey | Maya Shehayeb, Matt Lewis, Kathryn Coles, Andy Shepherd |
| 26 | Delivery of a practice-changing virtual conference with long-lasting engagement | Kerry Acheson, Danielle Russell, Karen Atkinson, Katherine Kibble, Safeer Mughal |
| 36 | Reform and features of scientific posters at oncology and rare disease congresses | Ben Clarke, Sabrina de Courcy, Claire Inness, Gillian Keating, Josie Pyrah, Elin Pyke |
| 39 | Extending the reach of virtual scientific congress posters by publishing poster summaries (ENCORE) | Ishani Patel, Gill Hill, Ericka Bueno, Marianne Jenal-Eyholzer, Sunita Setlur, Susan Wieting |
* Oral Presentation
† Winner, Best Original Research
‡ Winner, Most Reflective of Meeting Theme
¶ Winner, Most Innovative Digital Poster Format or Enhancement
Notify Us of Your Publications and Presentations!
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