Abstract
to analyze scientific evidence available in health literature on ethics, standardization and biometric indicators. an integrative review carried out in August 2016, on the databases: National Library of Medicine, Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (Latin-American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences), and on the library Scientific Electronic Library Online. The review included primary articles on: ethics, standardization and biometric indicators, in Portuguese, English, or Spanish; and excluded studies that were not found as full texts, as well as opinions, commentary, reviews, theses, and dissertations. For the evaluation of the articles, it was used evidence levels from one to five. eight articles were included, with scientific evidence levels 4 and 5: scientific productivism, production evaluation systems, internationalization, impact factor, classification of journals, and adequate and inadequate practices for publication. it was verified the need for publications with higher evidence levels so that Brazilian journals can follow international standards dealing with research ethics.
Highlights
Research is the key to present scientific articles to publish them and to promote changes in practice
The research question was based on the PICO strategy(15) and presented as:“Which scientific evidence are available in health journals that portray publication ethics, standardization, and biometric indicators?”
The integrative review consisted on result
Summary
Research is the key to present scientific articles to publish them and to promote changes in practice. To perform a research and write scientific articles is not an easy task, as one can see by the obligations of professors as researchers, both didactic and administrative ones, in the institutions they are affiliated to. Another aspect comprises students’ inexperience, who still lack the necessary knowledge to write and publish articles, they need to be guided. This task demands dedication, time and motivation by all involved researchers(5)
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