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She also said: "We can't turn the clock back. Most notably, the "Iraq Family Health Survey" published in the New England Journal of Medicine surveyed 9,345 households across Iraq and estimated 151,000 deaths due to violence (95% uncertainty range, 104,000 to 223,000) over the same period covered in the second Lancet survey by Burnham et al. In doing so, we hope to ensure rapid and wide dissemination of new research findings far beyond those doing science. 0000014879 00000 n The authors of the metastudy then asked The Lancet to retract the article, which was done on June 3, 2020. 0000038682 00000 n The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the The Lancet was founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley, an English surgeon who named it after the surgical instrument called a lancet (scalpel). In addition, Pepys accused Richard Horton personally for allowing the publication of such political views. 0000021274 00000 n 0000033684 00000 n 0 Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.
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Through partnership with our sibling journal EBioMedicine, whose focus is translational research, we also aim to bridge the communication gap that still exists between laboratory researchers and clinicians. To publish open access, a publication fee (APC) needs to be met by the author or research funder. A discussion of the current publishing landscape, interconnected with the strengths and weaknesses of peer-review, will be addressed in a subsequent editorial. This journal offers authors the option to publish their research via open access. We, of course, appreciate the necessary restrictions on disclosing human data and we place a premium on protecting patient confidentiality. startxref As preprints in life sciences and medicine gain more traction and attention, discussions that help shape an article towards publication are no longer limited to conferences or confidential peer-review, but are expanding to include the community and readers more broadly. If your research field is related to Medicine (all), then visit the official website of EClinicalMedicine and send your manuscript. "[38], Starting in 2011, critics of the studies filed Freedom of Information Act requests to get access to the authors' primary data, in order to learn what the trial's results would have been under the original protocol. 329 69 0000003981 00000 n Issues in January to June were in volume i, with the rest in volume ii. [41][46][47], As a step to increase quality control, the editors of The Lancet Group announced changes to the editorial policy in a comment titled "Learning from a retraction" which was published on September 22, 2020.[48][49]. For further details see Open Access details. "[citation needed], In August 2014 and during the 2014 IsraelGaza conflict, The Lancet published an "Open letter for the people of Gaza" in their correspondence section. [9], The Lancet has taken a political stand on several important medical and non-medical issues.
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[35], In 2011, The Lancet published a study by the UK-based "PACE trial management group", which reported success with graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome;[36] a follow-up study was published in Lancet Psychiatry in 2015.
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As reported in The Daily Telegraph, the letter "condemned Israel in the strongest possible terms, but strikingly made no mention of Hamas' atrocities. [18], The estimates provided in the second article are much higher than those published in other surveys from the same time. HTn6+(1MI-AniX-(ils+HE5ma@7o?Nf!x9|?g^8K+ztI%_B]-/YY>GbYd,6l{tO&/!=tB#l/3."lLH 49K1=d#Z6E[&l'p!g+^A5K}+QUyTb$B. It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by calculating the times its articles are cited.
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"[22][23][24][25], Mark Pepys, a member of the Jewish Medical Association, criticised the letter as being a "partisan political diatribe" which was inappropriate for a serious publication.
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