Open AccessQuality assessment of instructions for authors in dental, oral and maxillofacial journals
Author(s) -
Aleksandra Hebda,
Guillaume Odri,
Raphaël Olszewski
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nemesis: negative effects in medical science oral and maxillofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2593-3612
pISSN - 2593-3604
DOI - 10.14428/nemesis.v5i1.18263
Subject(s) - impact factor , quality (philosophy) , medical physics , reproducibility , dentistry , rating scale , medicine , computer science , statistics , mathematics , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law
Objective: to develop and test inter-observer reproducibility of instructions for authors quality rating (IAQR) tool measuring the quality of instructions for authors at journal level for a possible improvement of editorial guidelines.Material and methods: instructions for authors of 75 dental and maxillofacial surgery journals were assessed by two independent observers using assessment tool inspired from AGREE with 16 questions and 1 to 4 points scale per answer. Two observers evaluated the instructions of authors independently and blind to impact factor of a given journal. Scores obtained from our tool were compared with “journal impact factor 2013”. Results: IAQR presented with an excellent interobserver reproducibility (κ= 0.81) despite a difference in data distribution between observers. There existed a weak positive correlation between IAQR and “journal impact factor 2013”. Conclusions: The IAQR is a reproducible quality assessment tool at the journal level. The IAQR assess the quality of instruction for authors and it is a goodstarting point for possible improvements of the instructions for authors, especially when it comes to their completeness. Nemesis relevance: 28% of dental and maxillofacial journals might revise their instructions for authors to provide more up-to-date version.