Prepublish or Perish? Making a Case for Medicine to Take a Cue from Basic Science

  It’s time for clinical research to join other scientific fields like physics and computer science and encourage preprint publication of manuscripts on the internet, according to three top cardiologists writing in a Lancet comment. Since 1969 researchers have labored under the constraints of the Ingelfinger rule, in which “posting a paper, data, or key findings on the internet represented presubmission...Click here to continue reading...

Source: CardioBrief - December 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: People, Places & Events Policy & Ethics journals publications preprints Source Type: blogs