Ingelfinger rule
In scientific publishing, the 1969 Ingelfinger rule originally stipulated that The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) would not publish findings that had been published elsewhere, in other media or in other journals. The rule was subsequently adopted by several other scientific journals, and has shaped scientific publishing ever since.[1] Historically it has also helped to ensure that the journal's content is fresh and does not duplicate content previously reported elsewhere,[2] and seeks to protect the scientific embargo system.[3]
The Ingelfinger rule has been seen as having the aim of preventing authors from performing
The rule is named for Franz J. Ingelfinger, the NEJM editor-in-chief who enunciated it in 1969. An earlier version of the policy had been expressed in 1960 by Samuel Goudsmit, editor of the Physical Review Letters, but did not become as well known.[8]
See also
- List of academic journals by preprint policy
- News embargo
- Network effect
References
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Marshall, E (1998). "Franz Ingelfinger's Legacy Shaped Biology Publishing". PMID 9841429.
- ^ "Ingelfinger rule definition". Medicine.net. 13 June 2000. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
- ^ Schachtman, NA (20 June 2014). "Selective Leaking — Breaking Ingelfinger's Rule". Schachtman Law Blog. Retrieved 2015-05-23.
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Lariviere, V; Gingras, Y (2009). "On the prevalence and scientific impact of duplicate publications in different scientific fields (1980-2007)". arXiv:0906.4019 [physics.soc-ph].
- S2CID 236407601.
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Borgman, CL (2007). Scholarship in the digital age: information, infrastructure, and the Internet. ISBN 978-0-262-02619-2.
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Angell, M; Kassirer, J (1991). "The Ingelfinger Rule Revisited". PMID 1669838.
- ^ Lewenstein, BV (1988). "It's Not Really the Relman Rule". ScienceWriters. 36 (2): 17–18.
Further reading
- Relman, AS (1981). "The Ingelfinger Rule". PMID 7266634.
- Spain, A (26 February 2011). "Casting a critical eye on the embargo system: one year of Embargo Watch". Association of British Science Writers. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
- Altman, LK (1996). "The Ingelfinger rule, embargoes, and journal peer review–Part 1". S2CID 44524038.
- Toy, J (2002). "The Ingelfinger Rule: Franz Ingelfinger at the New England Journal of Medicine 1967–77" (PDF). Science Editor. 25 (6): 195–198.
- Harnad, S (2000). "Ingelfinger Over-Ruled: The Role of the Web in the Future of Refereed Medical Journal Publishing". PMID 11191471.
- White, E (2014). "Why the Ecology Letters editorial board should reconsider its No vote on preprints". Jabberwocky Ecology.
- Desjardins-Proulx, P; White, EP; Adamson, JJ; Ram, K; Poisot, T; Gravel, D (2013). "The Case for Open Preprints in Biology". PMID 23690752.