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Responsibilities of Authorship
Author(s) -
Bridget Kane
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of the american medical informatics association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-974X
pISSN - 1067-5027
DOI - 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050132
Subject(s) - assertion , prestige , electronic journal , medical journal , public relations , internet privacy , political science , computer science , library science , world wide web , free access , philosophy , linguistics , programming language
To the Editor :— Your article, “The Responsibilities of Authorship”1 is a laudable effort to maintain the journal's high standards. I would like to join the debate by questioning the assertion that “duplicative, or redundant, publication is both wasteful and misleading” and the journal's policy prohibiting prior publication.I submit that, in the electronic age, it is time we re-examine some basic assumptions about career advancement through publication of journal articles; the economics of peer-reviewed publications; and the ethics of withholding or delaying the dissemination of information in favor of economic considerations or considerations of personal prestige.This issue of the journal reports on “Guidelines for the clinical use of electronic mail with patients” …

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