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Training in clinical research in India.

Training in clinical research in India.

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Aggarwal S, Singh H, Bansal P, Goyal A, Saminder Singh K. Training in clinical research in India.  Indian J Community Med. 2010 Jul;35(3):446. This is a "Letter to the Editor" commenting on an earlier article in the same journal on Clinical Research Institutes and the lack of training in clinical research in the regular medical curriculum. The letter is written by four medical students (who would probably be voicing the views of the majority of the student community), who make an earnest plea for the introduction of a research based medical education curriculum. They mention the admission criteria for the…
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Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data.

Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data.

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Attwood TK. et al. Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data. Bioinformatics. 2010 Sep 15;26(18):i568-74. The authors have worked on the gap that exists between the mass of accumulating research data and the voluminous literature that describes and analyses this data. They have developed "Utopia Documents" a tool which is a pdf reader which integrates data analysis tools and visualization with published research articles. The reason for developing this novel pdf reader is that most people tend to read pdfs of articles and not the html versions. Utopia documents enables a shift from the static appearance in pdfs to…
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Combating plagiarism: a shared responsibility.

Combating plagiarism: a shared responsibility.

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Rathod, Sujit. Combating plagiarism: a shared responsibility. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. 2010; 7:173-75. Cut, copy, paste - is so easy to do that many people do it! We once had a journal editor sharing with us, how an author had taken one of his publications, simply reordered the paragraphs and submitted the same! While most authors do not go to this extreme, we still do see many instances of plagiarism, which we suspect are mostly due to ignorance of details. This article by Dr. Rathod specially highlights the responsibilities of the scientific community as well as observers and readers…
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