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Predatory journals can affect global research!

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Negative Effects of “Predatory” Journals on Global Health Research Forero DA et al. Negative Effects of "Predatory" Journals on Global Health Research. Ann Glob Health. 2018 Nov 5;84(4):584-589. PMID: 30779504 Our blogs have covered predatory journals earlier, but there is always more to learn on this topic. This article has a great abstract giving the most important information about predatory journals. If anyone has read this term for the first time, this paragraph gives them all they need to know. Predatory journals exploit the "Open Access concept" in negative ways - acceptance of practically anything - including bad stuff, and…

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Another resource for free articles

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Everyone loves getting articles for free! Let us introduce a unique tool to find free articles Unpaywall - https://unpaywall.org/ - is a database of more than 24 million legally free articles! Unpaywall harvests these articles from open access repositories (like PubMed Central) and from over 50000 journals. However it is not a database that can be searched in itself. It has to be integrated in any other collection - example - a library's collection or into a collection like PubMed This is best used when you install the Chrome Browser Extension available at https://unpaywall.org/products/extension Once you install this, then when…

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Writing keywords while submitting articles – a new confusion

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The number of authors writing in medical journals is increasing day by day, thanks to the "Publish or perish" and the "need for promotions" among academicians. I meet many of these authors (or want to be authors) when I deliver lectures or conduct workshops. I teach about MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) in PubMed - an important - actually the most important part of PubMed. And most often I understand that it is in my lectures and workshops that people understand how to use MeSH correctly. During one such event some years ago a journal editor had asked me if he…

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Canvas of Clinical Pharmacology Workshop 2020 (CCPW2020) – 6-10 January, 2020

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The Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai is organizing a five-day course. Each day of the workshop has a specific theme, like Clinical development - the beginning, Progress, After, Statistics & the marketplace, & Beyond approval – Generating evidence for practice guidelines (meta-analysis). This workshop is open for faculty, super-specialty students, post-graduate students, and industry personnel from clinical research and medical affairs Our CEO, Vasumathi Sriganesh will be a key resource speaker on the topic Effective Literature Search - Hand on exercise on 10th January 2020 (Friday) from 10.15 am to 11.00 am

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Research methodology teaching for undergraduate medical students – an interesting project

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Development and implementation of a competency-based module for teaching research methodology to medical undergraduates. Patra S, Khan AM J Educ Health Promot. 2019 Aug 30;8:164 PMID:31544129 The authors did this study as a part of a FAIMER fellowship program (CMCL-FAIMER). It aimed to develop and carry out a "competency-based research methodology" training module for undergraduate students and get the students' feedback on this. It was carried out in the Community Medicine Department, for 25 students in their 4th semester . The study was done in the year 2017. This group of 25 students were made to work in groups under…

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Predatory journals can affect global research!

Another resource for free articles

Writing keywords while submitting articles – a new confusion

Canvas of Clinical Pharmacology Workshop 2020 (CCPW2020) – 6-10 January, 2020

Research methodology teaching for undergraduate medical students – an interesting project

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