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Analyzing the citation impact of predatory journals in the health sciences. 健康科学掠夺性期刊的引文影响分析。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.2024

Erin Watson, Li Zhang

{"title":"Analyzing the citation impact of predatory journals in the health sciences.","authors":"Erin Watson, Li Zhang","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2024","DOIUrl":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2024","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Predatory journal articles do not undergo rigorous peer review and so their quality is potentially lower. Citing them disseminates the unreliable data they may contain and may undermine the integrity of science. Using citation analysis techniques, this study investigates the influence of predatory journals in the health sciences.Methods: The twenty-six journals in the \"Medical Sciences\" category of a known predatory publisher were selected. The number of articles published by these journals was recorded based on the information from their websites. The \"Cited References\" search function in Web of Science was used to retrieve citation data for these journals.Results: Of the 3,671 articles published in these predatory journals, 1,151 (31.4%) were cited at least once by 3,613 articles indexed in Web of Science. The number of articles that cited articles published in predatory journals increased significantly from 64 in 2014 to 665 in 2022, an increase of 10-fold in nine years. The citing articles were published by researchers from all over the world (from high-, middle-, and lower-income countries) and in the journals of traditional and open access publishers. Forty-three percent (1,560/3,613) of the citing articles were supported by research funds.Conclusions: The content from articles published in predatory journals has infiltrated reputable health sciences journals to a substantial extent. It is crucial to develop strategies to prevent citing such articles.","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 4","pages":"327-335"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12606076/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145514906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluation of an online systematic review escape room for early career clinicians and doctoral students. 早期职业临床医生和博士生在线系统评价逃脱室的评价。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.2167

Paul Cannon, Tracey McKee

{"title":"Evaluation of an online systematic review escape room for early career clinicians and doctoral students.","authors":"Paul Cannon, Tracey McKee","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2167","DOIUrl":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2167","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Systematic reviews are increasingly appearing in doctoral theses and being supported by librarians. There is, however, evidence that students struggle to undertake systematic reviews.Case presentation: We sought to understand the perspectives of, and confidence utilising systematic review search methods following an online escape room teaching intervention as part of our in-person orientation session for Doctorate in Clinical Psychology trainees. Following the session, trainees were invited to participate in an online survey to which we received a 90% response rate (n=35). The escape room was enjoyed by most trainees with many using the words \"fun\" and \"engaging\" to describe the intervention, this despite more participants finding the escape room difficult. The average scores for confidence in utilising search syntax were positive, but there was a wide range of scores. Many of the comments that trainees made centred on time pressure to escape. We believe that allowing the trainees more time would increase their enjoyment of the game and aid their learning.Conclusion: Our systematic review escape room demonstrates that key methodological concepts and search skills can be taught in an active, fun, and engaging way that helps introduce and scaffold learning for later in-depth teaching.","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 4","pages":"342-348"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12604065/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145507613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Developing and validating infant hedges for PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE: a Medical Library Association Pediatric Librarians Caucus initiative. 为PubMed和Ovid MEDLINE开发和验证婴儿屏障：医学图书馆协会儿科图书馆员核心会议倡议。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.2034

Lynn Kysh, Zoë Baker, Roxanne Bogucka, Emily A Brennan, Rachel J Hinrichs, Christine Willis

{"title":"Developing and validating infant hedges for PubMed and Ovid MEDLINE: a Medical Library Association Pediatric Librarians Caucus initiative.","authors":"Lynn Kysh, Zoë Baker, Roxanne Bogucka, Emily A Brennan, Rachel J Hinrichs, Christine Willis","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2034","DOIUrl":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2034","url":null,"abstract":"Background: To support evidence synthesis and clinical searching, a team of librarians developed and validated infant age (birth to 23 months) search hedges for PubMed (National Library of Medicine) and Medline (OVID).Methods: We developed four sensitive hedges by selecting terms that refer to infants. Three of the hedges had identical MeSH terms and keywords but used different field tags, and the fourth was a simple keyword hedge. We compared our hedges to the built-in MeSH-based infant filter. We used relative recall calculations to validate each hedge's performance against a gold standard reference set.Results: In PubMed the similarly structured hedges performed in a range of 83.2%-83.8% sensitivity and 88.2%-89.7% specificity. The simple keyword hedge performed with an 83.5% sensitivity and 89.7% specificity. The filter generated a 70.1% sensitivity and 96.2% specificity. Similarly, in Ovid Medline, the set of similar hedges performed in a range of 82.9%-83.6% sensitivity and 88.1%-89.4% specificity. The simple keyword hedge performed with an 82.9% sensitivity and 90.8% specificity. The filter generated a 69.6% sensitivity and 96.2% specificity.Discussion: The variation in field tags did not provide a significant difference in the areas of sensitivity and specificity. The filter performed as expected with higher specificity rather than sensitivity. The simple keyword hedge performed better than anticipated with comparable sensitivity and specificity of the more complex hedges. When searching for infant population articles, the simple keyword search and filter work well for quick, clinical searching. For evidence synthesis, we recommend using one of the more sensitive infant hedges.","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 4","pages":"281-289"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12604066/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145507664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Language inclusion intentions in scoping reviews. 范围审查中的语言包含意图。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.2170

Joshua Wang, Hayley Moody

{"title":"Language inclusion intentions in scoping reviews.","authors":"Joshua Wang, Hayley Moody","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2170","DOIUrl":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2170","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Research published in languages other than English (LOTE) is often ignored in evidence syntheses, marginalising diverse knowledge and global perspectives. While the extent of LOTE inclusion and the associated attitudes of LOTE inclusion amongst authors of systematic reviews has been well characterised, LOTE inclusion in other evidence synthesis forms has yet to be explored. Scoping reviews, in comparison to systematic reviews, examine a broader range of sources to build a conceptual summary of a field of inquiry, making LOTE literature an important source of information for scoping review authors. This study therefore aimed to characterise the current state of LOTE inclusion intentions in scoping reviews.Methods: Peer-reviewed, PubMed indexed scoping review protocols published from 01-Jan-2024 to 11-Aug-2024 were analysed for LOTE inclusion. Author affiliation, which LOTEs (if any) were included, and what methods authors planned to use to read LOTE literature were recorded.Results: Overall, LOTE inclusion intentions and attitudes were diverse, with just under half of the 249 protocols analysed including a LOTE. Many LOTE-included articles relied on the authorship team's own LOTE proficiency to gather evidence. Machine translation was also intended to be used in one quarter of the LOTE-included protocols. Only 30% of the exclusive protocols planned to exclude LOTEs at the screening stage, allowing for readers to identify the number of LOTE articles.Conclusion: This analysis demonstrates the need for increased LOTE inclusion and reporting guidelines for scoping reviews, as well as the importance of analysing LOTE inclusion for other forms of evidence synthesis.","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 4","pages":"290-297"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12604074/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145507672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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124th Annual Conference, Medical Library Association, Inc., Portland, OR, May 18-21, 20242024 Annual Business Meeting and Presidential Inaugural Address, June 5, 2024. 第124届年会，医学图书馆协会，公司，波特兰，俄勒冈州，2024年5月18日至21日；2024年6月5日，年度商务会议和总统就职演说。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.2356

Kate E Corcoran

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Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree: a case study on automatic indexing precision errors in PubMed. 有时候，苹果离树很远：PubMed中自动索引精度错误的案例研究。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.2110

Paije Wilson

{"title":"Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree: a case study on automatic indexing precision errors in PubMed.","authors":"Paije Wilson","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2110","DOIUrl":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2110","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: This case study identifies the presence and prevalence of precision indexing errors in a subset of automatically indexed MEDLINE records in PubMed (specifically, all MEDLINE records automatically indexed with the MeSH term Malus, the genus name for apple trees). In short, how well does automatic indexing compare [figurative] apples to [literal] apples?Methods: 1,705 MEDLINE records automatically indexed with the MeSH term Malus underwent title/abstract and full text screening to determine whether they were correctly indexed (i.e., the records were about Malus, meaning they discussed the literal fruit or tree) or incorrectly indexed (i.e., they were not about Malus, meaning they did not discuss the literal fruit or tree). The context and type of indexing error were documented for each erroneously indexed record.Results: 135 (7.9%) records were incorrectly indexed with the MeSH term Malus. The most common indexing error was due to the word \"apple\" being used in similes, metaphors, and idioms (80, or 59.2%), with the next most common error being due to \"apple\" being present in a name or term (50, or 37%). Additional indexing errors were attributed to the use of \"apple\" in acronyms, and, in one case, a reference to Sir Isaac Newton.Conclusion: As indicated by this study's findings, automatic indexing can commit errors when indexing records that have words with non-literal or alternative meanings in their titles or abstracts. Librarians should be mindful of the existence of automatic indexing errors, and instruct authors on how best to ameliorate the effects of them within their own manuscripts.","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 4","pages":"318-326"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12606386/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145514879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Accessibility audit of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association. 医学图书馆协会中西部分会的无障碍审计。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.2092

J J Pionke, Carol Shannon, Matthew Regan, Gerald Natal, Jessica D Gilbert Redman, Jessica Decaro, Anna Biszaha, Julia Carol Stumpff, Jennifer Feldman, Sara Westall

{"title":"Accessibility audit of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association.","authors":"J J Pionke, Carol Shannon, Matthew Regan, Gerald Natal, Jessica D Gilbert Redman, Jessica Decaro, Anna Biszaha, Julia Carol Stumpff, Jennifer Feldman, Sara Westall","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2092","DOIUrl":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2092","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In 2023, JJ Pionke became President of the Midwest Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MWCMLA). He determined that for his presidential year, he would form a task force to determine the accessibility levels of the chapter and remediate accessibility issues as appropriate.Case presentation: To accomplish the accessibility audit of the MWCMLA, Pionke formed an Accessibility Task Force that was time limited to one year. Task force meetings were held once a month to keep people accountable and to share out progress and requests for assistance. The task force was broken up into four teams: annual meeting, policy, social media, and website. Task force members could be on more than one team. The goals of each team were generally the same: what are other organizations doing, what do we have already if anything, and develop best practices/policy/etc. as needed.Conclusions: The teams fulfilled their mandate by creating best practices/guidelines/policies documents. Some accessibility remediation was needed for the chapter website. The task force's findings and materials were shared out among the MWCMLA as well as passed on to the presidents of the other chapters, many of whom had expressed interest in the results.","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 4","pages":"374-377"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12604068/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145507649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cognitive biases as interrupters in evidence based practice decision-making. 认知偏差在基于证据的实践决策中的干扰作用。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.2209

Jonathan D Eldredge, Deirdre A Hill

{"title":"Cognitive biases as interrupters in evidence based practice decision-making.","authors":"Jonathan D Eldredge, Deirdre A Hill","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2209","DOIUrl":"10.5195/jmla.2025.2209","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: To identify the most frequently-observed forms of cognitive bias among Health Information Professionals (HIPs) during decision-making processes. To determine if number of years in the profession influences the types of cognitive biases perceived in others' decisions.Method: This cross-sectional study invited participation of 498 elected and appointed leaders at the national, caucus, and chapter levels of the Medical Library Association. The 149 participants (32%) were presented with 24 cognitive biases often associated with expected decision-making contexts among HIPs.Results: The most frequently observed forms of cognitive bias in decision-making situations were: Status Quo, Sunk Costs, Novelty, Professionology, Authority, Worst-Case Scenario, and Group Think. Four of these overlapped with a previous 2007 study. Results were analyzed by length of years in the profession. Four forms of cognitive bias showed statistically significant differences in frequency by years in the profession: Authority, Naïve Realism, Overconfidence, and Status quo forms of cognitive bias.Discussion: This study identified commonly observed cognitive biases that interrupt decision-making processes. These results provide a first step toward developing solutions. Mitigation strategies for the seven most common forms of identified cognitive bias are explored with more general recommendations for all forms of cognitive bias. This study should guide the profession on the most commonly-perceived forms of cognitive bias occurring in decision-making environments with an eye upon possible mitigation strategies.","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 4","pages":"269-280"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12604062/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145507636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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PubMed Central: offering a trove of historical medical journals. PubMed Central：提供历史医学期刊的宝库。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.2235

Jeffrey S Reznick, Kathryn Funk, Laura Randall, Katy Rose Taylor, Katherine Chan, Ellen Adams

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Graphic medicine in academic health science library collections. 医学图形学在高校卫生学图书馆馆藏中的应用。

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Journal of the Medical Library Association Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2025.1962

Janet Chan, Melinda H Berg, Krystal Bullers, Tsu Yin Lue

{"title":"Graphic medicine in academic health science library collections.","authors":"Janet Chan, Melinda H Berg, Krystal Bullers, Tsu Yin Lue","doi":"10.5195/jmla.2025.1962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.1962","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Academic health science library catalogs were analyzed to determine the presence and frequency of graphic medicine titles in print format in the collections. The secondary objectives were to gauge if students could access graphic medicine titles, through other libraries within the same system or as eBooks, and to examine if libraries highlighted graphic medicine collections and their uses on their websites.Methods: A convenience sample of health science libraries was created from the Association of Academic Health Science Libraries member list. A title list was developed from collection resources and award lists for graphic medicine and graphic novels. Data was collected from public-facing library catalogs.Results: Fifty-six percent of the libraries analyzed had at least one title from the list in their collections available as print. An additional thirty percent had at least one title available as an eBook, leaving only fourteen percent with no graphic medicine titles.Conclusions: This study provides a starting point in describing the prevalence and breadth of graphic medicine collections in academic health science libraries. Although their presence may be small, our findings suggest that graphic medicine is being collected by academic health science libraries. Academic librarians can support the growing interest in the comic art format by incorporating graphic medicine into their collections and educating their patrons on this important genre.","PeriodicalId":47690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Medical Library Association","volume":"113 3","pages":"233-240"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12369966/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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