{"id":4741,"date":"2017-12-12T13:05:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T13:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2017-12-12T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T13:05:52","slug":"reporting-and-publication-practices-in-lower-middle-income-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2017\/12\/12\/reporting-and-publication-practices-in-lower-middle-income-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting and publication practices in lower\/middle income countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/7\/11\/e018467.full?ijkey=3ZnH19PoCQRpCoX&amp;keytype=ref\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4742\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2017\/12\/12\/reporting-and-publication-practices-in-lower-middle-income-countries\/reporting-practices-in-lmics\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Reporting-practices-in-LMICs.png?fit=960%2C649&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,649\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Reporting practices in LMICs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Reporting-practices-in-LMICs.png?fit=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Reporting-practices-in-LMICs.png?fit=960%2C649&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4742 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Reporting-practices-in-LMICs.png?resize=960%2C649&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Reporting practices in LMICs\" width=\"960\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Reporting-practices-in-LMICs.png?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Reporting-practices-in-LMICs.png?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Reporting-practices-in-LMICs.png?resize=768%2C519&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/7\/11\/e018467.full?ijkey=3ZnH19PoCQRpCoX&amp;keytype=ref\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study<\/a> published in <em>BMJ Open<\/em> brings to the fore a field that has been little-reported on to date: reporting and publication practices among health researchers in lower\/middle income countries (LMICs; defined by the World Bank). The authors highlighted several potential areas of concern, relating to guest authorship, undeclared conflicts of interest, plagiarism and redundant publication.<\/p>\n<p>Authors of Cochrane reviews working in LMICs were invited to complete a questionnaire that aimed to ascertain whether respondents thought that certain reporting practices were acceptable and whether these behaviours were common at their institutions. Further information was obtained through in-depth interviews. The study revealed that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guest authorship is common, with 77% of participants reporting its occurrence at their institution. In-depth interviews revealed that although participants felt authorship rules are simple, they are not consistently applied.<\/li>\n<li>There is a lack of awareness about conflicts of interest and how they may affect research. Forty percent of participants indicated that their colleagues had not declared conflicts of interest in the past.<\/li>\n<li>As in high-income countries, academic status and power can affect behaviour. In some regions, junior researchers are obliged to include senior researchers on papers when they do not meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icmje.org\/recommendations\/browse\/roles-and-responsibilities\/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">authorship criteria<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Institutions and culture can fuel bad practice, due to an overemphasis on publications in career progression (as can also be seen in high-income countries).<\/li>\n<li>Plagiarism may be an issue; while most respondents (96%) agreed that it is unacceptable, many (37%) were aware of its occurrence among their colleagues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to undermining research integrity, poor reporting and publication practice may have a detrimental effect on the continued development of the scientific industry in LMICs. The study authors conclude that &#8220;future research in LMICs should explore ways to promote research integrity at various levels within institutions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Summary by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspire-scientific.com\/#team_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philippa Flemming PhD, CMPP<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspire-scientific.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspire Scientific<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study published in BMJ Open brings to the fore a field that has been little-reported on to date: reporting and publication practices among health researchers in lower\/middle income &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2017\/12\/12\/reporting-and-publication-practices-in-lower-middle-income-countries\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reporting and publication practices in lower\/middle income countries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Reporting and publication practices in lower\/middle income countries @BMJ_Open #PubPlan ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_publicize_connection_overrides":[],"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[164971,131850,31272877,9631846],"tags":[343162382,343162394,343162395,343162393],"class_list":["post-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authorship","category-medical-writing","category-publication-planning","category-reporting-guidelines","tag-authorship","tag-lower-middle-income-countries","tag-medical-publishing","tag-reporting-guidelines","post-has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Reporting-practices-in-LMICs.png?fit=960%2C649&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Yk5l-1et","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}