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Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD; Richard M. Glass, MD; Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH

JAMA. 2000;283:2016-2017.

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The years 1999-2000 could serve quite well as a period of marked changes in biomedical publications. Several important developments involving scientific publications during this time represent significant changes that may be recognized as turning points for years to come. Perhaps most noteworthy is the tremendous capabilities of electronic information dissemination, with the ever-increasing power, speed, reach, and convenience of the Internet. This development has revolutionized and probably changed forever the dissemination of scientific information both from centralized repositories and institutions¹ and from individual journals.² In addition, concerns about ensuring proper attribution and credit for authorship of scientific articles have led to efforts to define the exact contributions of each author of a published article more precisely and to changes in ways to report these contributions more completely.^3-4 Moreover, the dismissal of the editors-in-chief of 2 major general . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliations: Dr DeAngelis is Editor and Drs Fontanarosa and Glass are Deputy Editors, JAMA.

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