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PubMed2004

The accuracy of references in manuscripts submitted for publication.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the errors present in references cited in papers submitted for peer review for possible publication. METHODS: Nineteen consecutive manuscripts submitted for peer review were assessed. They contained a total of 261 references. Manuscripts were submitted to 1 of 5 major radiology journals. Journal references were compared with either the original articles or abstracts obtained through MEDLINE. Book references were checked against the original book. In total, 259 of 261 references were obtained. The remaining 2 references were both out-of-print books that were not available. Each reference was checked and errors were identified as either major or minor, depending on the gravity of the error. Errors were analyzed to see whether they could be attributed to not adhering to journal guidelines or to other reasons. RESULTS: Of a total of 259 references, 56% (n = 145) contained at least 1 error, 53% (n = 137) contained minor errors and 15% (n = 39) contained major errors. Five per cent (n = 13) of references had more than 3 errors, and 79% (n = 274) of all errors were the direct result of authors not following journal instructions. CONCLUSION: Over half of all references included in manuscripts submitted to radiology journals contain at least 1 error. The majority are avoidable, resulting from failure to follow the journal's instructions to authors.

Bibliographies as Topic↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Kidney disease in medieval Serbian manuscripts from the Chilandar monastery (Mount Athos, Greece).

In the Chilandar monastery (Mount Athos, Greece) library, a collection of medical texts written in the Old Serbian Slavonic language was discovered in 1952. Because of its size and comprehensiveness, this manuscript was named the Chilandar Medical Codex. The Collection contains several manuscripts, which according to modern medical terminology, the manuscripts can be classified as texts on Internal Medicine, Infectious diseases, Toxicology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Surgery, belonging to different time periods. The oldest part, Text on uroscopy, is considered to have been written in 13th or 14th century and consists of 35 text pages divided into 62 paragraphs. Following the popular uroscopy methodology of macroscopic examination of urine, this text contains detailed descriptions of urine characteristics (color, consistency, sediment, odor), as well as a convincing Hippocratic description of urine formation from the filtration of metabolic and waste materials (involving the four humors) rather than blood and fumes (toxic metabolites) according to the theory of Theophilus Protospatharius and Isaac Israeli. Precise descriptions of normal and pathological urine characteristics are provided. Although kidney anatomy and function is unclear, the urinary bladder is very undoubtedly described as an organ for urine collection. In the Chilandar Medical Codex, there are about one hundred descriptions of kidney and urinary tract diseases and disorders. Many symptoms and syndromes such as hematuria, dysuria, pyuria, renal colic, anuria, polyuria, edema and dropsy, urine retention and fever, are incorporated in the broader clinical pictures of lithiasis of the kidney and/or bladder, pyelonephritis, cystitis, necrotic renal disease indicative of renal tuberculosis and tumors, acute and chronic nephritis, renal failure, and gout. Specific pharmacological prescriptions, mostly simple or compound herbal medicines, are given for each of those renal ailments.

Greece↗
PubMed1991

[Various suggestions for the presentation of manuscripts in biomedical journals].

The role of biomedical journals is to spread scientific knowledge. For the appropriate communication of this information, editors require that manuscripts sent for publication have a formal structure according to international standards. This paper makes suggestions to the authors on the preparation of the manuscript and its publication. Special emphasis must be made by the author on the selection of the right title and on the contents of the summary as they are a basic guide to the reader. The "introduction" includes, a description of previous data, the formulation of a hypothesis and the objectives of the paper. "Material and methods" includes the description of the methodology used which should be precise and complete enough so as to allow reproduction of the experiment. In "results" the data should be shown objectively making correct use of tables and figures. The "discussion" brings out the most important and new findings, and emphasizes future applications and projections. The conclusions must be backed up by the data presented. The wording must be simple and the manuscript as short as possible to make the reading easy and to spare the reader's time.

Periodicals as Topic↗
PubMed1993

Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

A small group of editors of general medical journals met informally in Vancouver, British Columbia, in January 1978 to establish guidelines for the format of manuscripts submitted to their journals. The group, now expanded and known as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (also known as the Vancouver Group), has met annually since then and its concerns have broadened. The committee has produced four editions of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals; this fourth edition was revised slightly in January 1993. During discussions of manuscript requirements, questions have been raised about other issues surrounding publication, especially ethics. Some of these concerns are now covered in the Uniform Requirements; others are addressed in separate statements issued by the committee. The total content of this communication may be reproduced for educational, not-for-profit purposes without regard for copyright; the committee encourages distribution of the material, which we hope will be useful. Journals that agree to use the Uniform Requirements are asked to cite the document in their instructions to authors.

Authorship↗
PubMed1997

Paul-Ferdinand Gachet's unpublished manuscript. Ophthalmia in the armies of Europe.

Paul-Ferdinand Gachet was a close friend and physician of many famous artists who lived in France toward the end of the 19th century. He was van Gogh's last physician, and Vincent painted Gachet's portrait on two occasions. The first of these paintings has become the most expensive painting ever sold at a public auction. Gachet's manuscript on the subject of military ophthalmia has never been published. Only one copy is known to exist. Although the content of the manuscript is not exceptional, Gachet's significance makes dissemination of his writing important.

Europe↗
PubMed1987

Are published manuscripts representative of the surgical meeting abstracts? An objective appraisal.

Abstracts accepted for presentation at a pediatric surgical meeting usually result in publication. This study attempts to evaluate the relationship of abstracts to the finished, published manuscript. Thirty-three papers published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery over a 2-year period were randomly selected and compared with their original program abstracts. Only 10 of 33 (30%) had the same title and authors as their abstract. Nine manuscripts underwent revisions of their title and two had different first authors. Nine (27%) had one more author, two had 2 more authors, and 3 had one less author. Only 11 of 33 (33%) had the same data in the paper and in the abstract. Fifteen (45%) had numbers that were mathematically inconsistent with their abstracts. (Range was from 75% fewer cases to 210% more patients.) Ten papers had smaller numbers of patients or experiments while nine had larger numbers than their respective abstracts. Of the seven experimental papers, four had smaller numbers than their original abstract. The conclusions stated in the papers were similar to the program abstracts in 23 of 33 comparisons. In the remaining ten, the conclusions were not only different but rather routinely weaker than in the abstract. In no instance were the data or conclusions stronger. Two papers bore little relationship to their abstract. These facts suggest a need for change in the current evaluation process wherein a highly competitive abstract leads to a presentation, which leads to publication. At the very least, the need is shown for authors to evaluate data completely before submitting an abstract, so that the program committee actually reads the true data.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Abstracting and Indexing↗
PubMed2001

Application of FT-Raman spectroscopy to the characterisation of parchment and vellum, I; novel information for paleographic and historiated manuscript studies.

Raman spectra of parchment and vellum have been recorded and used to characterise materials used in mediaeval (10th century) and later works. These studies support our work on the characterisation of pigments used in historiated manuscripts and provide the basis for future studies of the interaction between pigments, binders and parchment or vellum. Examination of the undecorated parts of the manuscripts or books has been undertaken to ascertain if there are traces remaining of the procedures used to prepare the materials; in several cases, there is spectroscopic evidence for the presence of sulphates and slaked lime, which were used in the preparations of vellums for scriptoria. In one 14th century cantoral, there is evidence for paper being used as backing on the verso side of the vellum, probably from an early repair.

Animals↗
PubMed2001

Research fundamentals: choosing an appropriate journal, manuscript preparation, and interactions with editors.

This article, the last in a series on research methodology prepared by the Research Committee of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), describes the process of journal selection, manuscript preparation, manuscript submission, and responding to editorial and reviewer comments. Methods for completing each step of this process are described. Following these methods will increase the chance of publishing one's work in the highest-quality and most appropriate journal.

Humans↗
PubMed2001

What happens to the manuscripts that have not been accepted for publication in Occupational and Environmental Medicine?

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the fate of manuscripts rejected by Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM). METHODS: A Medline search was conducted, up to March 2001, to find out whether and where articles submitted to OEM in 1995, 1996, and 1997, but not accepted for publication, were published. The articles were matched by authors and title, sometimes using the abstract to help decide whether the published article was the one that had been previously submitted to OEM. RESULTS: Out of 405 manuscripts rejected (44% of those submitted), 218 articles (54%) were traced in 72 different journals, with more than half being published in seven other major journals dealing with occupational and environmental health (rather than in specialty journals). Most papers were published within 2 years of their initial submission to OEM. Only a small proportion (10%) were published in a journal with a higher impact factor than OEM (1.96 in 1999). CONCLUSION: More than half the articles rejected by OEM found their way into the scientific literature covered by Medline. This figure is comparable with the few available data from other journals. It would be interesting to know the fate of articles published by OEM before they were submitted to our journal.

Bibliometrics↗
PubMed2000

Manuscript peer review: a helpful checklist for students and novice referees.

The ability to contribute consistent, fundamentally sound critiques is an essential element of the scientific peer review process and an important professional skill for investigators. Despite its importance, many students and junior scientists do not have an adequate working knowledge of how to effectively critique research manuscripts. Part of the problem, in our view, is that novice referees often lack a comprehensive understanding of the basic issues that should be considered in evaluating scientific articles. Specifically, they tend to overemphasize certain limitations (usually methodological), while missing other key points related to the scientific method that should be weighed much more heavily. In our journal club and graduate courses we have been using a "checklist" to help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows critically analyze original research papers. In this article we present these guidelines in the hope that they will serve as a helpful resource for students and other novice reviewers when critiquing scientific manuscripts.

Manuscripts as Topic↗
PubMed2003

Effects of reviewers' gender on assessments of a gender-related standardized manuscript.

BACKGROUND: Several factors including reviewers' gender can influence the assessment of submitted manuscripts. PURPOSE: This study was designed to investigate the effects of reviewers' gender on the assessment of a gender-related study. METHOD: One hundred reviewers (50 women) were randomly selected from Academic Medicine's reviewer pool. Two versions of an empirical study of medical students in which women forecast a lower professional income than men were prepared, and each version was randomly assigned to 25 men and 25 women reviewers. The two versions were identical except for one sentence in the abstract and two sentences in the conclusion. Version 1 attributed the lower forecast income of women to intrinsic gender factors (e.g., lower financial incentives). Version 2 attributed the difference to extrinsic social learning factors (e.g., socialization bias). RESULTS: Results showed no significant gender difference in reviewers' evaluations of the two manuscript versions. CONCLUSION: Although no evidence of reviewers' gender bias was found in this study, alternative explanations of the findings suggest that further empirical research is needed.

Double-Blind Method↗
PubMed1993

Zakhira-e-Nizam Shahi: a medical manuscript of Nizam Shahi period.

Medical manuscripts are the great source of medical history. They show the names of medicine men, their contributions and indicate the worth of medical literature existed in a particular period. some times they revewl the medical knowledge of the kings and nobles, their medical status and activities performed in different periods. For example, it is said that Burhan Nizam Shah of Ahmed Nagar was an expert in medical science. Most of the physicians who had privilege of attending upon him were put to test by him. He used to encourage the medical scholars to write new books on medicine. This article deals with one of such manuscripts, viz., "Zakhira-e-Nizam Shahi', of Nizam Shahi period, compiled by Rustum Jurjani, which contains twenty chapters in two volumes. According to Hk. Zahoori, it is a valuable addition to the science of pharmacology and treatment.

History, 16th Century↗
PubMed1992

[Gennai Hiraga and Bosho: with special reference to the manuscripts kept by the Suzukis, Izu].

Bosho is one of the important mineral drugs in the Edo era. Gennai Hiraga (1728-1779) gave a lot of space to the item of natural product Bokusho in his book "Butsurui-hinshitsu" (1763). Gennai made bosho from bokusho that was deposited at spring in Kamifunabara is little known to us except "Butsurui-hinshitsu". In Kamifunabara, we got an opportunity to survey the manuscripts kept by the Suzukis, which show Gennai's visit and activities there. The object of this paper is to introduce the manuscripts kept by the Suzukis and also to consider widely the knowledge of Gennai and his teacher Ransui Tamura (1718-1776) concerning bosho and related materials.

History, 18th Century↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Some new medical manuscripts from Moscow.

Among the approximately two thousand manuscripts of the Guenzburg collection at Moscow which have recently been filmed on behalf of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, about three dozen contain medical treatises. Of these, six display works of singular importance whose existence and contents have not yet been brought to the attention of scholars. The purpose of this article is to describe these new materials in some detail. We shall provide a full account of all six codices, but we shall give the most attention, including ample quotations, to the new materials.

History, 20th Century↗
PubMed1994

[Manuscript G. 108 inf. in the Ambrosiana library in Milan].

The manuscript G.180 inf. preserved in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana of Milan contains the Latin translations of three Hippocratic treatises (Prògnosticon, De aere, De septimanis) that were studied and published between the end of the XIXth and the beginning of the XXth century. But the second part of the manuscript is far more interesting and important. It contains four commentaries to Galen's four treatises: De sectis ad introducendos, Ars medica, De pulsibus ad tirones, Ad Glauconem de medendi methodo. The commentaries were composed in Ravenna between the 6th and the 7th century by "Agnellus iatrosophista" and were written by the physician Simplicius, surely one of Agnellus' pupils. But they aren't an original works by Agnellus: they are translations and combinations of original Greek commentaries compilated by Alexandrian scholars perhaps about the 6th century with Ammonius' and Olympiodorus' teaching method. At any rate, these commentaries testify the occurrence in Ravenna of a most active School of Medicine at the beginning of the Middle Ages. This school was a linear descendant of the School of Alexandria and transmitted classic medical culture first to the Beneventan medicine, and then, through the Beneventan medicine, to the early Schola Salenitana.

Greek World↗
PubMed2000

[Dermatological diseases and treatment described in the Turkish manuscripts (XIV-XVth centuries) (part I)].

This study deals with skin diseases described in the earliest compiled or translated Turkish medical manuscripts of the 14th and 15th centuries in Anatolia. The manuscripts studied are: Müntehab-i Sifa, Edviye-i Müfrede, Tervihü'l-Ervah, Yadigâr, Cerrahiyyetü'l-Haniyye, Kamilü's-Sinaatü't-Tibbiye Tercü-mesi, Kitab-i Müntehab-i fi't-Tibb, Haza'inü's-Sa'adat, Akrabadin Tercümesi, Mücerrebname, Müfredât-i Ibn-i Baytar Tercümesi, Tuhfe-i Mübarizi, Tuhfe-i Muradi. The skin diseases known at that time are studied under the following topics: Cüderi (Ciçek, Variola, Small-pox); Hasbe (Kizamik, Rubeola, Measles); Cüzzam (Lepra, Leprosy, Hansen's disease); Demregü (Temriye, Dermatophtosis, Tinea corporis); Behak (There are two types: the white and the black; the black is Addison's disease); Baras (Ala, Vitilio); Nemle (Isirga, Makül); Ateş paresi (Nar-l farisi, frunculosis); Cemre (Kara kabarcik, Sirpençe, Karbonkül, Carbuncle); Caversiye (Kabarcik hastaliği, blisters disease); Sivilceler (Various types of pimples; Humre: Yilancik, Erizipel, Erysipelas, St. Anthony's fire; Başbert: Ciban, Fronkül, Boil, Fruncle; Dümmel: Kan çibani, Abse, Abscess); Abile (Kabarcik, Bule); Seretan (kanser, Cancer); Hanazir (Siraca, Scrofuloderma); Akile (Yinürbaş, Gangren); Kurdeşen (Urtiker, Urticeria); Uyuz (Gale, Scabies); Giciyik (Kaşinti, Pruritus); Sa'fe (Konak, Seboreik dermatit, Scurf); Kel (Alopesi, Favus); Evram (Sişler, Urlar, Tumours); Yara (Karha, Cerahat, Wound). The terminology and symptoms of these diseases are studied and tried to find their equivalents of today. The causes and the treatment of the skin diseases known then are presented.

History, 15th Century↗