Ingelfinger rule

The Ingelfinger rule (English Ingelfinger rule ) states that once published articles will be accepted by a scientific journal a second time.

History

The Ingelfinger rule in 1969, erected by Franz J. Ingelfinger, the former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ). The rule has been adopted by most scientific journals and shaped the research landscape.

Properties

The Ingelfinger rule should also ensure that medical research reports should be first subjected to a peer review before they are advertised to the general public. Physicians are able to evaluate medical innovations better than laymen. Early advertising for medical research findings carry with only confuse the public. Moreover, it should be prevented that researchers increase their publication rate artificially by the multiple print in professional journals. With online prior publications and the duplication in web archives (eg Arxiv ), this rule is broken for online publications.