Abstract
Aim: To evaluate the knowledge of dental postgraduate students regarding publication of research papers. Materials and Methods: This was a questionnaire based comparative study in which after ethical approval the 2 groups compromising 30 post graduates students each( Group 1 = exam going final year Post Graduates, Group 2 = Post Graduates who just entered final year) were selected from a dental institution by simple random sampling. Then their knowledge regarding research publication was assessed using a self administered questionnaire. Results: The post graduates appearing for the exam has higher knowledge scores (mean score=5.87± 2.44) regarding research publication as compared to those who just entered the final year as their mean knowledge score (mean score=7.10±2.46). Conclusion: This study pinpoints the deficiencies in knowledge among Post graduates about research publication. To benefit the latter workshops and lectures on research publication should be made, part of post graduate curriculum so that they would be in ease during conducting and publishing their work without getting involved in fraudulent affairs. Keywords: Research publication, Comparative study, Dental post graduate students.
Highlights
In an era of evidence based medicine where everything changes in flip of a second, research laid an important innovation stone behind all this success and an end product of any scientific research is publication.[1]
The group one comprised 30 dental postgraduate students who were appearing for their final exams and the second group comprised of 30 dental post graduate students, who just the entered the final year
Total 60 post graduate students were enrolled in the present study, out of which 30 post graduates (20 females and 10 males) who just entered the final year constituted the first group
Summary
In an era of evidence based medicine where everything changes in flip of a second, research laid an important innovation stone behind all this success and an end product of any scientific research is publication.[1]. According to previous literatures 10% to 15% of total researchers in their lifetime are involved in inappropriate research practices and misconduct, if we want a quality work and want to contribute in medical health research by our work, the knowledge about these protocols of conducting and publishing research is mandatory. International bodies like COPE has given a proper subset of guidelines of writing and publishing research but it is usually in appropriately practice in our country.[3,4]. The guidelines for publishing the research works are provided by the specific journals according to their norms on their journal pages so to ease in following those instructions it is necessary to be well versed with scientific terms and one should be in a habit of writing research in the standardize protocols only.[5]
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