B Ing, Revisi Kell 8
B Ing, Revisi Kell 8
B Ing, Revisi Kell 8
CLASS 2B
A. MAPPING ( Write the main idea/ important information for each point in article)
TITLE:
The Emergency Medicine Facing the Challenge of Open Science
Due to the severity and urgency of the events faced by the emergency departments, they must
provide immediate care in critical situations of illness and injury related to communicable and non-
communicable diseases. Both the need for rapid responses and the advantages that saving time can
have for patients
, open data implies that the data, including the data underlying the scientific publications, remain
freely available online and can be used and shared. Data sharing is one of the existing practices in
science used to save time and resources while ensuring the validation and reproduction of research.
This practice is currently promoted by the Open Science movement, which advocates that data
should be as open. In health sciences research, the advantages of sharing data are sound, being that
discarded data can be used by other groups to produce new results, and the cycle of scientific
production might be favored consequently. . Evidence of the usefulness of data sharing applied to
emergency medicine (EM) includes the 2014 Ebola epidemic, where it was found that limited
access to information related to the outbreak could have adversely affected the break of the crisis.
Related to this last crisis, which is being considered as a pandemic by the World Health
Organization (WHO) while these lines are being written, there are already publications that
consider the research data sharing as the basis of a specific public health action, including all the
types of data related to health research from clinical trial to observational studies. Until now, there
is not enough scientific literature to evaluate whether the research in the EM field involves raw data
sharing in the same way that it has already been shown in other areas of the health sciences such as
dentistry, stem cell research and addictions [15–17]. This work aims to evaluate the editorial
policies related to data sharing of the EM category journals, as well as to analyze the quantity and
quality of the data being shared.
METHOD ( 10 sentences minimum) :
This study was conducted in four phases. First, the websites of the 24 journals included in the
“Emergency Medicine” category of the 2016 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) were analyzed.
Journals were classified in quartiles according to the JCR ranking. This information was collected
in May 2018. According to our previous studies [15–17], the following data were retrieved from
each journal: a) journal title; b) publisher; c) journal impact factor and quartile (unit used to
measure the position of journals of a particular category, ordered from highest to lowest impact
factor); and d) information about openness criteria, which was consulted in each journal’s website.
The information about openness criteria was specifically 1) the journal’s access modality; 2)
storage policies in institutional or thematic repositories; 3) reuse policies after the publication of the
article; 4) publication policies in official and/or author’s websites; and 5) statement of
Supplementary material (SM). “Section 1”, “Section 2”, “Section 3” and “Section 4” refer to the
general availability of the content of the article, while “5” is related to the raw data as SM. The
information found in each section was classified as: “accepted (A)”; “not accepted (NA)”;
“accepted with conditions (AC)” when, in the case of hybrid journals, it was only accepted when
the option OA was chosen; and “not specified (NE)”, when no reference was found.
Regarding to the fifth section (statement of Supplementary material), this study is only focused on
analyzing the raw data shared as Supplementary material (type of material that can be reused and
shared). Following other studies [23,24], this modality is one of the three di fferent ways currently
existing to share data in the scientific context: i) adding the raw data as Supplementary material to
the publication, ii) being available upon request to the authors and iii) uploading the raw data to a
data repository.
The second phase consisted of a search for the articles belonging to the JCR Emergency Medicine
journals in PubMed/Medline (PM) to assess the number of records (journal articles, clinical trials,
reviews ... ) included in this database.
A third phase was conducted in PubMed Central (PMC), the digital repository of the US National
Institutes of Health. In this repository, the type of SM contained in the articles of each journal was
analyzed through a search equation developed for this purpose (i.e., (“title of the journal” [journal])
AND (<Supplementary-material> OR supplemental information)). 13 JCR journals out of 24 were
found in PMC with SM.
The fourth phase consisted of a qualitative analysis of the format of each file attached as SM. The
types of files were identified as: pdf, doc/docx, jpg/tif/png, xls/xlsx/csv, mov/mp4/wmv/mpg/avi,
ppt/pptx, zip.
Due to the severity and urgency of the events faced by the emergency departments, they
must provide immediate care in critical situations of illness and injury related to communicable and
non-communicable diseases. Data sharing is one of the existing practices in science used to save
time and resources while ensuring the validation and reproduction of research. Evidence of the
usefulness of data sharing applied to emergency medicine (EM) includes the 2014 Ebola epidemic,
where it was found that limited access to information related to the outbreak could have adversely
affected the break of the crisis.
According to our previous studies [15–17], the following data were retrieved from each
journal: a) journal title; b) publisher; c) journal impact factor and quartile (unit used to measure the
position of journals of a particular category, ordered from highest to lowest impact factor); and d)
information about openness criteria, which was consulted in each journal’s website. The
information about openness criteria was specifically 1) the journal’s access modality; 2) storage
policies in institutional or thematic repositories; 3) reuse policies after the publication of the article;
4) publication policies in official and/or author’s websites; and 5) statement of Supplementary
material (SM). “Section 1”, “Section 2”, “Section 3” and “Section 4” refer to the general
availability of the content of the article, while “5” is related to the raw data as SM. The information
found in each section was classified as: “accepted (A)”; “not accepted (NA)”; “accepted with
conditions (AC)” when, in the case of hybrid journals, it was only accepted when the option OA
was chosen; and “not specified (NE)”, when no reference was found.
Open Access and data sharing represent the existing practices used to make science
available, increasereproducibility,andsavetimeandresources.
Thecollectionofdatasetsrelatedtotheprovision of emergency health care and their subsequent
integration, analysis and interpretation can help to understand the complex mechanisms involved in
emergency medical care and the functioning of these departments contributing to accelerate the
pace of progress made in fighting critical situations of illness and injury derived from accidents,
communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as outbreaks and epidemics There is a need
to develop technologies that enable the integration of dispersed emergency health care data from a
variety of sources such as emergency departments’ information systems, electronic
medicalrecords,anddataaccompanyingarticlesassupplementalmaterialordepositedinrepositories.
Aggregation of these data can detect the relationships between diseases and the risk factors that
produce them. However, there is a need for appropriate data selection that follow properly the FAIR
(Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles [25] and the development of tools to
ensure the consistency and validity of data from a variety of sources.