Department of Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neurotoxicology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore 560 029, India.
Asian J Psychiatr. 2020 Dec;54:102283. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2020.102283. Epub 2020 Jul 3.
We explain with the help of examples the many reasons why journal articles that contain patient data need to provide information about where and when the study was conducted. We examined compliance to this requirement in two leading Indian psychiatry journals.
We examined all issues of the Indian Journal of Psychiatry (IJP) and the Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine (IJPM) for the years 2017-2018 to determine how many articles that required to provide location and period information actually did so.
In these two journals, about 30-40 % of papers did not provide location data. About 50 % of papers did not provide period data. There were no significant differences between the two journals, in these regards. Only about a third of the papers provided both location and period data.
During 2017-2018, most authors of papers in the IJP and the IJPM did not provide location and/or period data in their papers. The instructions to contributors for these journals and, in fact, all journals, therefore need to inform authors that such information must be included in submitted manuscripts.
我们通过示例解释了为什么包含患者数据的期刊文章需要提供研究开展的地点和时间信息的诸多原因。我们检查了两份印度领先的精神病学期刊是否符合这一要求。
我们检查了 2017-2018 年《印度精神病学杂志》（IJP）和《印度心理医学杂志》（IJPM）的所有问题，以确定有多少需要提供地点和时间段信息的文章实际上提供了这些信息。
在这两个期刊中，大约 30-40%的文章没有提供地点数据。大约 50%的文章没有提供时间段数据。这两个期刊在这方面没有显著差异。只有约三分之一的文章提供了地点和时间段数据。
在 2017-2018 年期间，IJP 和 IJPM 中大多数论文的作者在其论文中没有提供地点和/或时间段数据。因此，这些期刊的投稿说明，实际上所有期刊的投稿说明都需要告知作者，必须在提交的稿件中包含这些信息。
