Publish or Perish: Need to have another look?

Jawaid, Shaukat Ali

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“…At the same time, the pressure to publish at all costs has led to increasing episodes of research misconduct and inevitable retractions, which then questions the integrity of the current published literature 31. The world-renowned publishers like Nature, Science and Cell carrying very impressive impact factors have witnessed the highest rates of retractions 32. This rise in retractions is helping the growth of predatory journals and publishers as these dubious publishing portals promise quick publication for hard cash.…”

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Publish or Perish mantra in the medical field: A systematic review of the reasons, consequences and remedies

Guraya¹,

Norman²,

Khoshhal³

et al. 2016

Pak J Med Sci

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Objectives:Generally, academic promotions, job retention, job mobility, and professional development of a medical faculty members are judged primarily by the growth in publication outputs. Universities and research institutions are more likely to recruit and promote those academics carrying voluminous résumés with larger number of published articles. This review elaborates the causes and consequences of the pressure to publish and the ways and means to cope with this paradigm.Methods:In 2015, database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, LISTA (EBSCO), Medline and Oxford University Library were searched for the English language full-text articles published during 2000-2015, by using MeSH terms “pressure to publish”, “urge to publish”, “research ethics”, “plagiarism”, “article retraction”, “medical field”. This search was further refined by selecting the articles in terms of relevancy and contents.Results:This research showed that some universities offer generous grants to researchers with a high h-index and with more publications in elite journals, which promise an enhanced prospect of citations and elevation in the scientific rankings of the funding institutions. This generates an involuntary obsession to publish with the primary intention to obtain promotions, high scientific rankings, and improved job security. This compelling pressure to publish results in widespread publication of non-significant research with a high index of plagiarism that eventually leads to an increased frequency of retractions.Conclusion:Research centers and academic institutions have an obligation to train their academics in sound scientific writing and to apprise them of the publication ethics and the grave consequences of plagiarism and research misconduct.

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Publish or Perish mantra in the medical field: A systematic review of the reasons, consequences and remedies

Guraya¹,

Norman²,

Khoshhal³

et al. 2016

Pak J Med Sci

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“…Publish or Perish needs to be given another look by the authority’s concerned. 14 At present many impatient authors under pressure to publish get trapped by predatory journals offering quick publication on payment. These predatory journals make all sort of dubious claims of having high Impact Factor using the terms like Global Impact Factor, Scientific Impact Factor or Universal Impact Factor etc., and authors need to be extremely careful and do not get trapped.…”

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Author’s failure to read and follow instructions leads to increased trauma to their manuscripts

Jawaid

Jawaid²

2018

Pak J Med Sci

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Authors under pressure to publish to meet some academic requirement are one of the most dangerous pressure group which the editors of good quality peer review biomedical journals have to face every day. Their failure to read and follow instructions for authors which are published on every journal website, lack of training facilities in research methodology, medical writing, and low computer literacy rate leads to increased trauma to their manuscripts. The authors must realize that from submission to final publication manuscripts go through various stages i.e. internal review, editor’s triage, similarity index check, formatting, external review, revision of the manuscripts in the light of reviewers comments and suggestions. It all takes time and there is no short cut. They must plan at least for six to eight months from the date of submission to acceptance and publication and avoid getting trapped by predatory journals which offer quick publication on payment.

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“…Publish or perish holds true in research milieus, but a publication in a high-impact journal can make an enormous bearing on one's academic calling [1][2][3] . A high impact factor (IF) of a journal is a measure of a journal's standing among the peer group.…”

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“…The academic society in the mid-20 th century identified the essentiality of publishing research manuscript because of professional development 4,38 . Here and now researchers, academicians around the globe under snowballing pressure to publish or perish 1,2 . Academicians, researchers of non-English speaking countries of LMICs often encounter difficulties to publish in highly reputed medical journals published in the English language those are indexed in PubMed, Scopus, and Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) 3,…”

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“…At many occasions, researchers conduct these scientific endeavors without any fund. As their career will perish because no publication means, not only promotion but no renewal of the contract, even cannot apply for a job 1,2,38 . Subsequently, not only a young researcher but the whole scientific community of LMICs suffers because of the extremely high cost of APC 7,39,40 .…”

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Challenges of Publishing in High Impact Medical Journals from Lower- And Middle- Income Countries

Haque

Kamal

2019

Bangladesh J Med Sci

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Publish or Perish: Need to have another look?

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Publish or Perish mantra in the medical field: A systematic review of the reasons, consequences and remedies

Publish or Perish mantra in the medical field: A systematic review of the reasons, consequences and remedies

Author’s failure to read and follow instructions leads to increased trauma to their manuscripts

Challenges of Publishing in High Impact Medical Journals from Lower- And Middle- Income Countries

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