Professor Adam G. Dunn

Professor of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Sydney

PLoS Medicine becomes more interested in research translation

PLoS Medicine: WHO/PLoS Collection “No Health Without Research”: A Call for Papers

This is particularly good news for those of us interested in the translation of evidence into practice in medicine. Some of the discussions that PLoS Medicine have listed as desirable include issues around ethics in research, and models of research network organisation.

  • On the value of deplatforming, and seeing online misinformation as an opportunity to counter misinformed beliefs in front of a key audience
  • Do Twitter bots spread vaccine misinformation?
  • trial2rev: seeing the forest for the trees in the systematic review ecosystem
  • How articles from financially conflicted authors are amplified, why it matters, and how to fix it.
  • Thinking outside the cylinder: on the use of clinical trial registries in evidence synthesis communities
  • Differences in exposure to negative news media are associated with lower levels of HPV vaccine coverage