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Monitoring of Open Science practices: a survey of 10 major medical journals

2025-11-27 health systems and quality improvement Title + abstract only
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ObjectiveTo evaluate open science policies of leading general medical journals and the extent to which open science practices are implemented and detectable using automated tools. DesignCross-sectional audit of journal policies and retrospective observational study of journal articles, with diagnostic accuracy validation of automated screening tools against manual data extraction. Setting: Annals of Internal Medicine, BMC Medicine, The BMJ, CMAJ, JAMA, JAMA Network Open, The Lancet, Nature Med...

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