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Obtaining meaningful insights from publication metrics - Volume 31, Issue

Altmetrics and other article-level metrics offer new opportunities to understand the impact of medical publications and, indeed, clinical trial programmes. For example, we can learn whether the publication has been viewed, shared, engaged with, or…

Collecting metrics in medical writing – the benefits to you and your business - Volume 28, Issue

Collecting and using metrics may not be at the forefront of all medical writers’ minds, but they can be an important asset to writers and managers, from freelancers to those working within companies, large or small. Keeping a record of pertinent…

Identifying appropriate journals in which to publish original research on vaccines against human infectious diseases - Volume 21, Issue

The most effective way of communicating new research findings is by publishing them in a peer-reviewed journal which is widely read and highly respected. To ensure that important new data are shared with the appropriate audience in a timely manner,…

Social media and altmetrics: The pharma perspective - Volume 30, Issue

The increased prevalence of healthcare-related social media and other web-based communications has generated interest in tools that measure the attention and engagement of published content. In the context of medical research publications, the use…

Responding to concerns over the PSMF: Inspectors offer key insights - Volume 23, Issue

The pharmacovigilance system master file (PSMF) is a detailed description of the pharmacovigilance system used by the marketing authorisation holder for their authorised medicinal products. The PSMF is intended to be a live, custom-made document…

Carbon footprint of clinical trials: a high-level literature review - Volume 31, Issue

Thousands of clinical trials are conducted globally each year. Yet, little is known about their environmental impact. This paper presents the results of a high-level literature review of the carbon footprint of clinical trials. Five papers were…

Charting your way to the top: The 12 major milestones of freelance medical writing - Volume 32, Issue

As a freelance medical writer, it’s tough to know how well you’re doing – conventional career metrics don’t apply and you don’t have a boss keeping tabs on you. Yet, for your medical writing business to stand the test of time, with you at the helm,…

Good clinical practice (GCP): A universal call for ethics in biomedical research - Volume 23, Issue

Today, the principles of good clinical practice (GCP) form such an integral part of the development of new medicines that they could easily be taken for granted. Yet, the road to a universal code of ethics in human experimentation is paved with…

Combined workshops on medical writing and publication ethics for Japanese postgraduate students and faculty members - Volume 22, Issue

Although the importance both of skills in medical writing in English and of an understanding of ethics in medical publishing is increasingly recognised, these subjects are not comprehensively taught to Japanese medical doctors and students. Limited…

The ethics of medical translation - Volume 33, Issue

Much has been written about the ethics of medical interpreting, but not so much about purely written translation. What moral principles apply (or should apply) when I translate a document for a client? Do I need to invent these principles myself, or…

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