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Suggested Research Topics

Suggested research topics include:

  • Mechanisms of peer review and editorial decision making used by journals and funders
  • Evaluations of the quality, validity, and practicality of peer review and editorial decision making
  • Biases, breakdowns, and other weaknesses
  • Quality assurance for reviewers and editors
  • Authorship, contributorship, and responsibility for published material
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Research misconduct
  • Peer review of grant proposals
  • Ethical concerns for researchers, authors, editors, and reviewers
  • Editorial freedom and integrity
  • Editorial policies and responsibilities
  • Effects of funding and sponsorship on scientific publication
  • Financial models for peer review and scientific publication
  • Online and Web-based peer review and publication
  • Open access and archiving
  • Prepublication posting and release of information
  • Evaluations of the quality of scientific information
  • Quality and reliability of data presentation and scientific images
  • Quality of new media in scientific publication (video, audio, blogs, etc)
  • Effectiveness of standards designed to improve the quality of scientific publication
  • Improved tools and metrics to assess and measure the quality of peer-reviewed published content
  • Peer review, use, and quality of scientific conference proceedings and gray literature
  • Changes in readership and use of peer-reviewed published content
  • Methods for improving the quality, efficiency, and equitable distribution of biomedical information
  • New technologies that affect the quality, integrity, dissemination, and access of biomedical information
  • The future of scientific publication