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Objectives: Generally, academic promotions, job retention, job mobility, and professional development of a medical faculty members are judged primarily by the growth in publication outputs. Universities and research institutions are more likely to recruit and promote those academics carrying voluminous resumes with larger number of published articles. This review elaborates the causes and consequences of the pressure to publish and the ways and means to cope with this paradigm
Methods: In 2015, database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, LISTA [EBSCO], Medline and Oxford University Library were searched for the English language full-text articles published during 2000-2015, by using MeSH terms "pressure to publish", "urge to publish", "research ethics", "plagiarism", "article retraction", "medical field". This search was further refined by selecting the articles in terms of relevancy and contents
Results: This research showed that some universities offer generous grants to researchers with a high h-index and with more publications in elite journals, which promise an enhanced prospect of citations and elevation in the scientific rankings of the funding institutions. This generates an involuntary obsession to publish with the primary intention to obtain promotions, high scientific rankings, and improved job security. This compelling pressure to publish results in widespread publication of non-significant research with a high index of plagiarism that eventually leads to an increased frequency of retractions
Conclusion: Research centers and academic institutions have an obligation to train their academics in sound scientific writing and to apprise them of the publication ethics and the grave consequences of plagiarism and research misconduct
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Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma [HEH] is an exceedingly rare tumor of vascular origin with unknown etiology and unpredictable natural course and malignant potential. The disease presents with myriad of vague symptoms and can be diagnosed by ultrasound, CT, and MRI. Target shaped hepatic lesions due to hyperechoic center and hypoechoic peripheral rim are the diagnostic ultrasonic features. Hepatic capsular retractions due to extensive fibrosis can be identified by CT and MRI. The lesions are usually hypointense on T1-weighted images and hyperintense on T2-weighted images. There is no consensus on treatment of hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, which ranges from hepatic resection, hepatectomy, liver transplantation, chemo- and radiotherapy, and thermoablation. This case report presents a 36-year-old female, incidentally diagnosed to have hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, which was treated by right hepatectomy and was attended by favorable outcome