Pai Sanjay A
Columbia Asia Referral Hospital, Malleswaram, Bangalore 560 055
Indian J Med Ethics. 2014 Jan-Mar;11(1):7-9. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2014.003.
2013 has been a landmark year, in fact, a bad year for biomedical journals. Medical journals and their editors have been respected for long, as they are the harbingers of change and of progress in scientific thought. Science expects transparency from the agents through which scientists publish their latest research findings and this expectation is usually fulfilled. Recent developments have, however, thrown into doubt the integrity of some science journals, their editors, and by extension, the entire field of biomedical and science publishing. These developments involve wide-ranging issues--the impact factor, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and the birth, existence and rise of predatory journals.
2013年是具有里程碑意义的一年，事实上，对生物医学期刊来说是糟糕的一年。医学期刊及其编辑长期以来一直备受尊重，因为它们是科学思想变革与进步的先驱。科学界期望科学家发表最新研究成果的媒介具有透明度，而这一期望通常能够实现。然而，最近的事态发展使一些科学期刊、其编辑以及生物医学和科学出版的整个领域的诚信受到质疑。这些事态发展涉及广泛的问题——影响因子、国际医学期刊编辑委员会（ICMJE）以及掠夺性期刊的诞生、存在和兴起。
