The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) just announced that the latest iteration of their Good Publication Practice document (GPP 2022) for industry-sponsored medical publications is available. Read on for what’s new and what’s changed in the latest guideline.
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Most researchers are familiar with the “IMRaD” format for scientific publications (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion). Though this is the order in which the sections usually appear in print, you …
This list of medical writing resources is updated as new resources become available or I become aware of them. If a link is no longer working or something is missing, …
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It was a pleasure getting together with fellow members of the American Medical Writers Association for the Connecticut chapter dinner last week. My goal for leading the discussion was to …
It’s rare, but it happens. A very small fraction (about 4 in 10,000) of peer-reviewed manuscripts are retracted – papers that are withdrawn from their original publication. Some are retracted …
Did you know that 52% of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and medicine) fields report experiencing gender bias, while only 2% of men in STEM do? My colleague, Priyanka …
It’s December so that must mean another update from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) on their guidelines for peer-reviewed medical publications. (The ICMJE guidelines are one of …
In the fast-paced world in which we live, it seems that nobody has time to read a full research article any more. With so much reading done on mobile screens …