H.B. Harvey is department quality chair, Department of Radiology, and senior scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, and assistant professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.D.F. Weinstein is vice president, Graduate Medical Education, Partners Healthcare System, and associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Acad Med. 2017 Feb;92(2):150-151. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001521.
The quality of medical literature is increasingly threatened by irresponsible publishing, leading to rising retraction rates, irreproducible results, and a flood of inconsequential publications that distract readers from more meaningful scholarship. "Predatory publishers" offer rapid publication with loose peer review, exploiting a system in which faculty seek longer bibliographies to achieve academic promotion. In this Commentary, the authors highlight some of the evidence that this problem exists and suggest actions to address it. Recommendations for protecting the medical literature include preventing predatory journals from being indexed by the National Library of Medicine; encouraging academic promotions committees to ensure that they prioritize value over volume of publications and that faculty understand that priority; excluding publications from predatory journals on curricula vitae and requiring that retractions are included; developing sanctions for repeated retractions or duplicate publications; and convening an expert panel to better elucidate this problem and determine strategies to combat it.
医学文献的质量正日益受到不负责任出版的威胁，导致撤稿率上升、结果不可复制以及大量无关紧要的出版物泛滥，使读者无法关注更有意义的学术成果。“掠夺性出版商”提供宽松同行评审的快速出版，利用教师为了获得学术晋升而寻求更长的参考文献列表的系统。在这篇评论中，作者强调了存在这一问题的一些证据，并提出了解决这一问题的建议。保护医学文献的建议包括防止掠夺性期刊被美国国家医学图书馆索引；鼓励学术晋升委员会确保他们优先考虑出版物的价值而不是数量，并且教师要了解这一点；在简历中排除掠夺性期刊的出版物，并要求包含撤稿内容；对重复撤稿或重复发表出版物实施制裁；以及召集一个专家小组，以更好地阐明这个问题，并确定应对策略。
