Your choice of citations DO matters

The article «Bad Footnotes Can Be Deadly» in Slate Magazine argues how your choice of citations matters.

Welcome to our new Steering Group members!

We are pleased to welcome two new members to our Steering Group – Caroline Blaine and Jennifer Yost. Caroline is Deputy Head of Content at the BMJ Knowledge Centre. Her interest in … Continue Reading →

Towards Evidence Based Research – now in Italian!

We are happy to announce that the BMJ paper: Towards Evidence Based Research is now available in Italian thanks to the GIMBE Foundation. The Italian version is published in Evidence – … Continue Reading →

Eugene Garfield (1925 – 2017)

The EBRNetwork would like to acknowledge one of the giants on whom shoulders we stand. Eugene Garfield was a giant in publishing metrics, including writing about the failure to cite … Continue Reading →

Evidence-Based Research – what do funders do?

It’s estimated that 85% of medical research is wasted. The waste comes from asking the wrong question, bad design or poor reporting – and in a study carried out with … Continue Reading →

Evidence-Based Research – what does it mean for consumers? Join the debate.

On November 8th the EBRNetwork and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences arranged the seminar ”Redundant and dangerous health research – how can you support better research practice?” At the … Continue Reading →

100 Members!

We have 100 members! Thanks to everyone who is supporting us! If you are not a member yet sign up here

How to be an evidence-based researcher – new paper in BMJ

We define the researcher as being “evidence-based” if he/she systematically reviews what is already known before embarking on a new study. Not being evidence-based as researcher is unethical, unscientific and … Continue Reading →

Can librarians contribute to increasing value and reducing waste in medical research?

Interesting new blog by Shona Kirtley about the role of librarians and information specialists in helping to reduce research waste.

Marie Curie PhD fellowships in Methods in Research on Research

The European Union, more specifically the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, are looking for young early state researchers (PhD students) within the area: “Research on Research”. This is an emerging new scientific discipline that aims … Continue Reading →