METHODS We included all original full research articles published in 2015 in the top five
general medical journals (The New England Journal of Medicine [NEJM], The Lancet, JAMA …

Successful publishing of an article depends on several factors, including the structure of the
main text, the so-called introduction, methods, results and discussion structure (IMRAD). The …

Aconsiderable proportion of clinicians and re-searchers face difficulties in identifying the
available databases of biomedical information when performing literature searches for the …

Importance The language of medical research appears to be intrinsically tied to the culture
of medical research and provides a unique window into broader trends in the culture of …

Abstract Backgrounds The CONSORT for Abstracts checklist published in 2008
recommends that authors report effect size for their studies. Meanwhile, the FDA strongly …

METHODS We investigated rate of uncitedness in five high-impact journals: the Annals of
Internal Medicine (AIM), the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the Journal of the American …

OBJECTIVES: Objective and indirect evidence was used to determine whether required
author contribution forms were associated with a decrease in author counts in four major …

Objective To quantify the use of question marks in titles of published studies. Design and
setting Literature review. Participants All Pubmed publications between 1 January 2013 and …

Objectives Previous research has shown clear biases in the distribution of published p
values, with an excess below the 0.05 threshold due to a combination of p-hacking and …

The title of an article is the main entrance for reading the full article. The aim of our work
therefore is to examine differences of title content and form between original research …