Replicating and publishing research in different countries and different settings: advice for authors

At BMJ Quality & Safety, we frequently receive manuscripts that in some way replicate prior research. For example, authors submit research seeking to validate previously published tools such as safety climate surveys, to measure the frequency of a known safety event or quality concern or to test an existing intervention in new settings such as in different countries. This research is clearly important for stakeholders in the new setting concerned. However, a key question for us as editors is when such studies should be published in our journal, which has a broad and international remit, rather than a national or more context-specific journal. We seek to publish research from a wide variety of settings, and indeed would like to publish high-quality work from a wider range of countries than we do at present. However, as for most international journals, we would not publish a study evaluating intervention ‘X’ or...

Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - August 18, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Franklin, B. D., Thomas, E. J. Tags: Editorials Source Type: research