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
