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E J Huth

Publications and source records attributed to E J Huth.

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PubMed1986

Irresponsible authorship and wasteful publication.

Fraud is a dramatic offense in scientific publishing but other offenses are more frequent and probably far more damaging. The most frequent lesser offenses are irresponsible authorship and wasteful publication. The authorship problems include listing of "authors" who made little or no contribution to the work reported and omitting of persons who made major contributions. Wasteful publication includes dividing the results in a single study into two or more papers ("salami science"); republishing the same material in successive papers (which need not have identical format and content); and blending data from one study with additional data to extract yet another paper that could not make its way on the second set of data alone ("meat extenders"). Wasteful publication may be the most frequent of these offenses and is probably the most damaging because of its economic implications for publishers, readers, libraries, and indexes.

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PubMed1983

Medical journals and urgent medical news.

The Director of the Office of Health Policy Information in the Harvard School of Public Health, concerned with public anxieties about the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, has urged scientific journals to take various steps to speed scientific information along, both to the news media and to print in the journals themselves. The Annals has for some years used one of these steps, accelerated peer review and revision of accepted papers. This journal also puts no constraints on authors discussing their research with the news media before publication of their papers. The journal, with authors' permissions, sends pre-publication copies of important papers to the Federal agencies with responsibilities related to those papers. The Department of Health and Human Services should consider setting up a clearinghouse that could receive such pre-publication copies and direct them to appropriate agencies. But none of these steps should by-pass peer review.

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