Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.4103/0973-3698.364679
M. Thabah, G. Currie
Uniform requirements for manuscript submission (URMs) are considered to be “recommendations on conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work in medical journals.” They have gradually evolved from initial guidance describing how to prepare manuscripts into a full document defining the role and responsibilities for all key players involved with academic medical publishing and ethical considerations of publishing and editorial issues. Significant changes to URMs over the years include an update on criteria for authorship. Emphasis is also laid on mandatory disclosure of financial or relationships not only by the authors but also by editors, peer reviewers, and editorial staff alike. Since 2005, all International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) journals require that clinical trials are prospectively registered. Efforts and guidance by the ICMJE are primarily to ensure transparency in academic publishing and enhance the credibility of published data.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.4103/INJR.INJR_286_20
Latika Gupta, Prakash Gupta
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.4103/injr.injr_229_21
S. Yeoh, A. Madenidou
Telerheumatology, the use of telemedicine in the provision of rheumatology care, has been on the periphery of rheumatology practice for several years. However, the need for remote rheumatology service has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to help prevent the spread of the virus. EULAR and ACR published guidelines to address the rheumatological clinical needs safely. Synchronous and asynchronous telemedicine, including remote patient-monitoring systems, were used. The majority of telerheumatology studies focus on rheumatoid arthritis, which is reflective of the caseload in the rheumatology clinic. Connective tissue diseases are likely to pose more challenges for telemedicine use, given its multi-organ involvement and heterogeneity. The benefits of telemedicine include patient safety, minimizing travel time and time off work, and the evidence of patient satisfaction has supported this. On the other hand, the lack of clinical examination and privacy is a concern which patients might have about receiving telerheumatology care. Physicians are more comfortable providing telemedicine consultations for already-established patients, especially those with stable disease, and less with new patients. Rheumatology training has been disrupted, and rheumatology trainees were required to rapidly adapt their practices to telemedicine as outpatient clinics transitioned to virtual clinics. Tele-education and virtual rheumatology conferences have enabled education to be delivered in a more inclusive way. In conclusion, it is likely that hybrid models will be adopted for patient care after the pandemic. However, it is imperative that the patient is at the center of future telerheumatology service design.
{"title":"Telerheumatology during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on clinical practice, education, and research","authors":"S. Yeoh, A. Madenidou","doi":"10.4103/injr.injr_229_21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/injr.injr_229_21","url":null,"abstract":"Telerheumatology, the use of telemedicine in the provision of rheumatology care, has been on the periphery of rheumatology practice for several years. However, the need for remote rheumatology service has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to help prevent the spread of the virus. EULAR and ACR published guidelines to address the rheumatological clinical needs safely. Synchronous and asynchronous telemedicine, including remote patient-monitoring systems, were used. The majority of telerheumatology studies focus on rheumatoid arthritis, which is reflective of the caseload in the rheumatology clinic. Connective tissue diseases are likely to pose more challenges for telemedicine use, given its multi-organ involvement and heterogeneity. The benefits of telemedicine include patient safety, minimizing travel time and time off work, and the evidence of patient satisfaction has supported this. On the other hand, the lack of clinical examination and privacy is a concern which patients might have about receiving telerheumatology care. Physicians are more comfortable providing telemedicine consultations for already-established patients, especially those with stable disease, and less with new patients. Rheumatology training has been disrupted, and rheumatology trainees were required to rapidly adapt their practices to telemedicine as outpatient clinics transitioned to virtual clinics. Tele-education and virtual rheumatology conferences have enabled education to be delivered in a more inclusive way. In conclusion, it is likely that hybrid models will be adopted for patient care after the pandemic. However, it is imperative that the patient is at the center of future telerheumatology service design.","PeriodicalId":54167,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Rheumatology","volume":"17 1","pages":"394 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43381858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.4103/0973-3698.364674
D. Misra
Publication metrics enable the assessment of the performance of citations or utilization of published work. Journal-level metrics depend on the database whose citations are analyzed. Publication metrics from the Web of Science include the widely-used journal impact factor (JIF) and other indices such as Journal Citation Impact, Eigenfactor, normalized Eigenfactor, and Article Influence Score. Metrics from Scopus include the CiteScore, Source Normalized Impact Factor, and SCImago Journal Rank. Author-level metrics such as total citations, h-index, i10-index, and g-index inevitably increase with time and can be inflated by self-citations. Article-level metrics such as total citations and online attention scores derived from Scopus (PlumX Metrics) or Altmetric indicate the extent of utilization and discussion in scientific circles of a particular article. Publication metrics are useful to provide a bird's eye view of how well an individual journal or article has been cited or used. They do not necessarily reflect article quality. As an example, some of the articles with the highest Altmetric Attention Scores are actually retracted publications that attained high scores due to the negative debate that they elicited. Journal-level metrics such as the JIF are fluid and prone to historical fluctuations from year to year, most recently observed by increases in the JIF of journals which published a lot of coronavirus disease 19-related content. Research assessment of individual scientists often misuses publication metrics such as the JIF, when they should instead rely on a critical appraisal of research articles by assessors.
出版指标可以评估引文的表现或已发表作品的利用率。期刊级别的指标取决于对其引文进行分析的数据库。来自Web of Science的出版指标包括广泛使用的期刊影响因子（JIF）和其他指数，如期刊引用影响、特征因子、归一化特征因子和文章影响得分。Scopus的指标包括CiteScore、Source Normalized Impact Factor和SCImago Journal Rank。作者级别的指标，如总引用次数、h指数、i10指数和g指数，不可避免地会随着时间的推移而增加，并可能因自我引用而膨胀。文章级别的指标，如Scopus（PlumX指标）或Altmetric得出的总引用量和在线注意力得分，表明了特定文章在科学界的利用和讨论程度。出版指标有助于提供一份期刊或文章被引用或使用情况的鸟瞰图。它们不一定反映文章的质量。例如，一些高度关注度得分最高的文章实际上是由于引发负面辩论而获得高分的撤回出版物。期刊级指标，如JIF，是不稳定的，每年都容易出现历史波动，最近通过发表大量冠状病毒疾病19相关内容的期刊的JIF的增加来观察到这一点。对个别科学家的研究评估经常滥用JIF等发表指标，而他们应该依赖评估员对研究文章的批判性评估。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.4103/injr.injr_238_21
S. Mohanty, P. Pattnaik
Smart health care comprises e-health, m-health, electronic resource management, smart and intelligent home services, and medical devices. Wireless sensors, radio-frequency identification technology, Internet of things, and machine learning (ML) algorithms are the underlying technology to implement smart health care. Sensor plays a vital role in smart health care for the collection of real-time data. Sensors such as accelerometers, wearable sensors, and thermal infrared camera sensors are extensively used to assemble data for patients with arthritis. ML algorithms are used to observe ailments and classify patients with respect to various diseases. This article presents a basic introduction to these concepts, existing smart health-care applications for rheumatology along with the pros and cons of smart health-care system. This article will help the researchers working in the field of medicine to understand the underlying technology of smart health-care systems.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.4103/0973-3698.364680
K. Talari, M. Goyal
Background: Postgraduate training is often the first stage where a medical trainee is required to research and publish. With no or scant prior training and the pressure to publish, it is potentially a stage where ethical lapses and publishing misconducts are likely to occur. We conducted a web-based survey among medical postgraduate trainees in India to assess their awareness about publication ethics and identify the specific areas where they lacked awareness. Methods: This was a cross-sectional, web-based survey conducted among medical postgraduate trainees in India. A Google form with multiple choice type questionnaire comprising 10 items related to publication ethics was prepared and disseminated after checking its face and content validity. The questionnaire included items to assess awareness about informed consent, plagiarism, authorship issues, conflict of interest, data handling, and predatory publications. Results: A total of 205 responses were analyzed. While the respondents had better awareness about the informed consent, sample size and consequences of data fabrication (correct responses by 55%, 66%, and 77% of respondents, respectively), the responses to other questions (direct plagiarism, duplicate submission, authorship issues, reviewer's conflict of interest, conflict of interest, salami publication, and predatory journals) were varied and demonstrated a greater degree of ignorance. Majority of the respondents were unaware that a manuscript cannot be submitted to multiple journals at the same time. Conclusion: This survey shows that postgraduate medical trainees lacked adequate awareness of publication ethics. Structured approaches involving curricular exposure, focused workshops, and special courses covering these aspects may result in better awareness regarding these issues.
{"title":"Understanding the awareness of publication ethics among medical postgraduate trainees in India: A web-based survey","authors":"K. Talari, M. Goyal","doi":"10.4103/0973-3698.364680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/0973-3698.364680","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Postgraduate training is often the first stage where a medical trainee is required to research and publish. With no or scant prior training and the pressure to publish, it is potentially a stage where ethical lapses and publishing misconducts are likely to occur. We conducted a web-based survey among medical postgraduate trainees in India to assess their awareness about publication ethics and identify the specific areas where they lacked awareness. Methods: This was a cross-sectional, web-based survey conducted among medical postgraduate trainees in India. A Google form with multiple choice type questionnaire comprising 10 items related to publication ethics was prepared and disseminated after checking its face and content validity. The questionnaire included items to assess awareness about informed consent, plagiarism, authorship issues, conflict of interest, data handling, and predatory publications. Results: A total of 205 responses were analyzed. While the respondents had better awareness about the informed consent, sample size and consequences of data fabrication (correct responses by 55%, 66%, and 77% of respondents, respectively), the responses to other questions (direct plagiarism, duplicate submission, authorship issues, reviewer's conflict of interest, conflict of interest, salami publication, and predatory journals) were varied and demonstrated a greater degree of ignorance. Majority of the respondents were unaware that a manuscript cannot be submitted to multiple journals at the same time. Conclusion: This survey shows that postgraduate medical trainees lacked adequate awareness of publication ethics. Structured approaches involving curricular exposure, focused workshops, and special courses covering these aspects may result in better awareness regarding these issues.","PeriodicalId":54167,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Rheumatology","volume":"17 1","pages":"357 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43807328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.4103/INJR.INJR_320_20
L. Gupta, Supriya Sharma, R. Kharbanda, Shelley Aggarwal, D. Misra, V. Agarwal
Background: Confinement and economic uncertainty, along with disease-specific issues such as pain and suffering may uniquely impact rheumatology patients, putting non-COVID morbidity at par with COVID-related losses. Methods: We conducted a review of records to explore the clinical profile and interventions in rheumatology patients at a tertiary care center in Northern India to identify the potential problems and propose direction for the future. Results: In our experience spanning 5 weeks, among 508 rheumatology patients who sought teleconsultations, rheumatoid arthritis was the most common diagnosis (35.2'), and 43' were asked to continue the same treatment over tele consults, whereas investigations were awaited for another 16'. Nearly one-third (29.9') required an intervention, though this largely consisted of dose titrations (104 of 152, 68.4'). Certain diseases such as myositis were under-represented among consults (1.2') but over-represented (33.3') among admissions. Among the 54 patients who were asked to rate their teleconsultation experience, the voice and consultation quality were rated and average of 9.9 each, and 88.9' (48/54) said they would prefer teleconsultations until the pandemic is over. Conclusion: A sizeable proportion of rheumatology patients can be managed with teleconsultations, with some requiring greater assistance, calling for a triage protocol for the times ahead. With propositions for a deliberate transition into the realm of virtual consulting, chronic caregivers can hope to reach an optimal balance between e-consults and in-person visits.
{"title":"Virtual consulting in the times of COVID-19","authors":"L. Gupta, Supriya Sharma, R. Kharbanda, Shelley Aggarwal, D. Misra, V. Agarwal","doi":"10.4103/INJR.INJR_320_20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4103/INJR.INJR_320_20","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Confinement and economic uncertainty, along with disease-specific issues such as pain and suffering may uniquely impact rheumatology patients, putting non-COVID morbidity at par with COVID-related losses. Methods: We conducted a review of records to explore the clinical profile and interventions in rheumatology patients at a tertiary care center in Northern India to identify the potential problems and propose direction for the future. Results: In our experience spanning 5 weeks, among 508 rheumatology patients who sought teleconsultations, rheumatoid arthritis was the most common diagnosis (35.2'), and 43' were asked to continue the same treatment over tele consults, whereas investigations were awaited for another 16'. Nearly one-third (29.9') required an intervention, though this largely consisted of dose titrations (104 of 152, 68.4'). Certain diseases such as myositis were under-represented among consults (1.2') but over-represented (33.3') among admissions. Among the 54 patients who were asked to rate their teleconsultation experience, the voice and consultation quality were rated and average of 9.9 each, and 88.9' (48/54) said they would prefer teleconsultations until the pandemic is over. Conclusion: A sizeable proportion of rheumatology patients can be managed with teleconsultations, with some requiring greater assistance, calling for a triage protocol for the times ahead. With propositions for a deliberate transition into the realm of virtual consulting, chronic caregivers can hope to reach an optimal balance between e-consults and in-person visits.","PeriodicalId":54167,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Rheumatology","volume":"17 1","pages":"418 - 421"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70777726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.4103/0973-3698.364678
Anurag Sachan, S. Khanna, Vishal Sharma
A peer-reviewed publication is a culmination of the scientific process, which involves various stages, including planning and executing a research project. Publications, apart from being evidence of research productivity, have become the chief measure of assessment of a researcher for selection and promotion. This has increased the pressure on academicians to have more publications. Moreover, with advances in peer review and an increasing number of journals that want to publish “impactful research” with a bias toward positive results, the process of getting a publication has become more difficult and complex. There is a lack of awareness about ethical practices known as good publication practices (GPPs). Reporting any research in a standard manner, preregistration of clinical trials, obtaining a proper ethical clearance, maintaining patient anonymity, and getting proper consent are some of the components of GPP. Misconducts in the publication process at the author's front include data fraud, plagiarism, copyright violations, nondisclosure of conflicts of interest, and duplicate publications. The peer reviewers and editors are also prone to misconduct, either knowingly or unknowingly. Ethical misconduct should be handled appropriately at the institutional, editorial, or journal level. The custodians of these ethical pillars are largely the editors and peer reviewers who must base their decisions on suggestions and advice from the organizations standardizing the practices, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.4103/0973-3698.364675
Hassan Khan, Anna Catharina Vieira Armond, Mona Ghannad, D. Moher
Predatory journals are journals that do not adhere to best editorial and publication practices. They often provide false or misleading information. Similarly, predatory journals have a long history of sending often aggressive and indiscriminate invitations to submit articles to them. Finally, these journals lack transparency regarding their operations. There are a large number of predatory journals that include hundreds of thousands of articles, including millions of participants who have participated in clinical research and thousands of animals included in preclinical research. The quality of reporting of these articles is disturbingly low. Unfortunately, these articles have been included in systematic reviews, meta-analyses and health policy documents. The extent to which the inclusion of these articles influence clinical practice guidelines and health policy is unknown. It is unlikely to be a zero influence. Similarly, these articles have managed to leak into what is considered trusted resources, such as PubMed. To combat the proliferation of predatory publishers and journals requires collaborative efforts on the part of many groups. Researchers need more education and resources about predatory journals. They need to be cautioned about responding to the aggressive and unsolicited E-mails they receive from these journals. Funders need to be more explicit about not allowing the use of article processing fees for publishing in predatory journals. Universities, other research organizations, and their respective libraries need to enhance their outreach concerning the problems of predatory journals and publishers. Similarly, there needs to be stronger guards against using publications from predatory journals in hiring, promotion and tenure portfolios. Finally, the research ecosystem should move away from conceptualizing whether journals are predatory or not, to a more nuanced view whereby journals and publishers are judged on their practices-high risk to lower risk.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.4103/0973-3698.364677
A. Gracia-Ramos
The case reports and case series are the oldest genres of medical literature. They constitute uncontrolled study designs with different varieties that describe important scientific observations that are missed or undetectable in other research methods. The advantages of employing case reporting include the discovery of unusual clinical conditions or unrecognized diseases, the detection of beneficial or side effects of treatments, the exploration of alternatives in clinical practice, solving ethical limitations, formulation of hypotheses, teaching, and the opportunity to generate publications. On the other hand, they have several shortcomings that limit their credibility such as the impossibility to generalize their findings, selection and recall bias, information preferences, overinterpretation (“anecdotal fallacy”), and the distraction of readers toward the unusual. The journey toward publishing a case study begins with the choice of the case, followed by an in-depth literature review on the issue. Obtaining the signed consent of the patients or their representatives and the selection of the journal for the publication of the article are the next steps. Writing a structured report may vary, but it can generally be represented by the acronym SIPDiSC: Summary (abstract), Introduction, Presentation, Discussion, Summary of the case experience, and Conclusion. Finally, a careful choice of authors should be made. Writing high-quality case reports and case series provides valuable information for clinical research, clinical practice, and medical education.
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