I am sharing a very unusual incident and would urge all of you to read the
article:
In India this year we have had an unusual (maybe a landmark event) case of
the same article being published in several journals. I am sharing one
citation -

Indian Association of Medical Journal Editors, Aggarwal R, Gogtay N, Kumar
R, Sahni P. The Revised Guidelines of the Medical Council of India for
Academic Promotions: Need for a Rethink. Indian Pediatr. 2016 Jan
8;53(1):23-6. PubMed PMID: 26840666.

So far these are a total of ten PMIDs for the same article - 27006532
26985403 26962247 26960626 26957784 26941486 26846881 26840666 26826653
26821564

Majority (if not all) Indian journals have agreed to publish this article
so that the contents reach our to a large number of doctors. This came in
the wake of the Medical Council of India putting up a guideline for what
kind of publications would be considered for academic promotions.The
guideline obviously needed a major rehaul. It was discussed threadbare at a
special session during the WAME conference held in October 2015, and
following that, all journal editors agreed to publish the same article. I
was privileged to be part of the discussion and offer some inputs.

I am not sure if the MCI has made any changes yet, but it sadly reflects a
lot of ignorance in the realm of research, writing and more. And, that is
one of the reasons why our Foundation exists - to help make tons of
changes!

I'd welcome any inputs from people on the article.

None of them have got MeSH terms yet - three are in process and two are
just supplied, so I would wait and see how the indexing is - varied or the
same :)


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On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Reich, Barbara <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> You see this fairly often with guidelines. Although this isn't a
> guideline, I imagine that because the subject matter is of great importance
> to both nurses and dieticians, and the readership probably doesn't cross
> over much, the two journals made the agreement to co-publish.