Atlas Michel C
Kornhauser Health Sciences Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2003 Oct;91(4):442-9.
Public interest in issues concerning the maintenance of high ethical standards in the conduct of scientific research and its publication has been increasing. Some of the developments in these issues as reflected in the publication of the medical literature are traced here. This paper attempts to determine whether public interest is reflected in the specific requirements for authors for manuscript preparation as stated in the "Instructions to Authors" for articles being prepared for submission to 124 "high-impact" journals. The instructions to authors of these journals were read on the Web for references to ethical standards or requirements. The ethical issues that the instructions most often covered were specifically related to the individual journal's publication requirements. The results suggest that while the editors and publishers of the biomedical literature are concerned with promoting and protecting the rights of the subjects of the experiments in the articles they publish, and while these concerns are not yet paramount, they are evolving and growing.
公众对科研行为及其发表过程中维持高道德标准相关问题的关注度一直在上升。本文追溯了医学文献发表中所反映出的这些问题的一些发展情况。本文试图确定公众利益是否体现在为向124种“高影响力”期刊投稿而准备的文章的“作者须知”中对作者稿件准备的具体要求上。这些期刊的作者须知在网上进行了研读，以查找对道德标准或要求的提及。这些须知最常涵盖的道德问题与各期刊的具体发表要求特别相关。结果表明，虽然生物医学文献的编辑和出版商关注在其所发表文章中促进和保护实验对象的权利，且这些关注尚未成为首要问题，但它们正在不断发展和增强。
