HEOR: Why It Is Changing the World of Medical Publications

Richard White, MA, PhD, Oxford PharmaGenesis Ltd, Oxford, UK; Jacob Willett, MPH, Oxford PharmaGenesis Inc., Newtown, PA, USA; Polly Field, MSc, DPhil, Oxford PharmaGenesis Ltd, Oxford, UK This article is part of the Medical Publications 101 article series, which...

Transparency Matters – Take the Transparency Pledge!

Transparency Matters is a call to action launched by Medical Publishing Insights & Practices (MPIP), designed to raise awareness, provide resources, and improve the quality and transparency in reporting the results of industry-sponsored research. Similar to ISMPP,...

Predatory Journals: Everyone’s Problem

Jocalyn Clark, MSc, PhD, Executive Editor, The Lancet, and Former Executive Editor, icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) The growing availability and marketing of “predatory journals” – fake or fraudulent journals with...