Publications

This branch covers putting research into the published record, and a reader chooses here by the part of it: the journal articles, congress abstracts and books, the reporting guideline a report follows, getting a manuscript published, open access, planning a programme of publications, the integrity and credit of the record, and the rights in a published work and permission to reuse it. It leaves the regulator's account of a trial and the registration and posting of its results to regulatory writing, the plain-language summary of a trial's results to lay summaries of clinical trial results, the grant proposal and the thesis to academic writing and clinical records, the congress poster and talk to slides, posters and talks, drafting and revising the manuscript to making a document, and the study designs and statistics a paper reports to evidence and data.

• Publication planning — publication strategy, Good Publication Practice, gap analysis, choosing and sequencing venues, guarding against non-publication and delay, publication management systems, and planning publications from advisory boards, patient-reported outcomes and medical devices
• Choosing and using a reporting guideline — what a reporting guideline is for, the ICMJE recommendations, where the guidelines are collected, finding the one that fits the study, SAMPL, SAGER and reporting harms, bringing the guideline to the authors, what endorsement does not guarantee, and keeping up as guidelines change
• Journal articles — research manuscripts, reports by study design, review articles, editorials and commentary, letters to the editor, plain language summaries of publications, digital enhancements to a publication, and book reviews
• Congress abstracts — the abstract a congress publishes: its structure and word limits, its tables and figures, the rules on authorship and repeat presentation, and its readers before the meeting
• Books — planning a medical book, contributing a chapter, editing and producing the book, indexing it, and writing one with an AI book designer
• Getting published — choosing a journal, submission and peer review, and after acceptance
• Open access, preprints and open science — access and publishing models, open-access mandates, preprint servers and open publishing platforms, posting and citing preprints, the joint position statement on preprints and peer review, open science beyond open access, and publishing research in a pandemic
• Research and publication integrity — scientific integrity, what retraction does and fails to do to the record, research ethics as a shared responsibility, publication-ethics guidance and codes, authorship, medical writers and ghostwriting, industry funding and disclosure, plagiarism and text recycling, and preventing research waste
• Rights, attribution, and permissions in publishing — copyright and who owns a work, permission, licences and fees for reusing published material, AI and copyright, and what a publishing agreement hands over