Scientific Transparency: a New Horizon for Scientific Publication and the "New Cardiovascular Surgeon"

• Published in: Revista brasileira de cirurgia cardiovascular 2019-01, Vol.34 (6), p.I-II
• Main Authors: Braile, Domingo M, Zanini, Meryt, Gonçalves, Camila Sáfadi Alves, Evora, Paulo Roberto B
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Cardiac Surgical Procedures - trends; Cardiology; Defects; Editorials; Fines & penalties; Fraud; Heart surgery; Humans; Periodicals as Topic - ethics; Plagiarism; Publishing - ethics; Publishing - standards; Researchers; Scientific Misconduct - ethics
• ISSN: 1678-9741; 0102-7638; 1678-9741
• DOI: 10.21470/1678-9741-2019-0609

In the course of the BJCVS’ processing, if fraud and/or data fabrication is identified, the manuscript will be summarily excluded from the evaluation process and its authors may incur penalties determined by the BJCVS’ Editorial Board. To assist editors, researchers, and readers in general, the BJCVS is based on the five criteria that determine a publication redundant3: (1) similar sample numbers and sizes; (2) identical or almost identical methodology; (3) similar results; (4) at least one author’s name is common to both reports; and (5) little or no new information is made available. With the advent of new technologies, mainly the less invasive ones, which are performed through catheters and percutaneous introducers, a large part of the surgical treatments has been taken over by different professionals, leaving the Cardiovascular Surgeons out of many techniques, once exclusive of their specialty. [...]our field has been restricted, since we have been denied the right to assume the new techniques on equal terms.