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A Workshop on Research Methodology in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from 16th to 20th March 2020

A Workshop on Research Methodology in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from 16th to 20th March 2020

5 - Research events in India
The workshop is organized by Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Collaboration with UDEHP) KAHER, Belagavi, Karnataka. This workshop will be useful for Faculty in Medicine, Health Research Scholars and Students preparing for Entrance Exam for Higher Ph. D etc The workshop covers: - Designing Studies, Protocol Writing & Statistical Fallacies; Literature Search & Review, Impact Factor; Study Designs, Sampling Techniques and Analysis; Sample Size Estimation and Study Designs and Diagnostic evaluation For more details: Contact: Organizing Secretary Dr. N.K. Tyagi, Professor and Head, KLE Acamedy Of Higher Education And ResearchDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, JNMC campus, Nehru Nagar, Belagavi -590010…
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Predatory journals claiming that they follow all the ICMJE recommendations

Predatory journals claiming that they follow all the ICMJE recommendations

3 - Interesting Articles
Potential predatory journals are colonizing the ICMJE recommendations list of followers. R Dal-Ré, A Marušić. Neth J Med. 2019;77(2):92–96. Link: http://www.njmonline.nl/getpdf.php?id=2093 ; PMID: 30895939. Recently several predatory journals seem to claim that they follow all the ICMJE (The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations to gain the appearance of legitimacy. The term ‘predatory journals’ could be assumed, that these are open access journals that publish poor quality articles, with poor or no peer-review process, owned by publishers providing no transparent editorial services. Their main objective is financial gain by article processing charges to authors. In this paper, the authors…
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The new PubMed is here! Learn something about it

The new PubMed is here! Learn something about it

2 - Do you know
In mid November 2019, the National Library of Medicine, USA announced the launch of the new PubMed. They mentioned that the new one will become the "default" from Spring 2020 - which will be around the 19th of March, 2020. It is time for us to start getting used to the new PubMed - both the good and the not so good, about the new PubMed. Here are some points of learning: The site address The new PubMed is available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ . If you have bookmarked the old, one, you will get a message asking you to try the…
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