A. AUTHORSHIP
1. Ghostwriting - Fabrication, Falsification, or Fool's Gold?
2. Conforming to the 4th criterion for authorship and accountability among regional medical journals
3. International collaboration on scholarly research, writing, editing and publishing
B. DATA/CONTENT SHARING: AVAILABILITY AND ACCESS
1. The development of tools for information access and data sharing in the Western Pacific Region
2. The development of Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR)
3. Reasons for irregular publication of academic institutions and medical specialty society journals: The APAME experience
4. Indexing of author's names in medical journals published from selected countries in the Western Pacific and South-East Asia regions: An evaluation
C. EDITORIAL AND PEER REVIEW PROCESSES: APPLICATIONS IN/FOR ASIA
1. The editing and review process - common problems and challenges
2. Reflections of a new editor of a new journal: The Bhutan Health Journal
3. The current status of Myanmar's Health Science Journals
4. Publication bias in editorial and peer review processes
D. TRAINING IN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION
1. Evaluation of existing national medical writing workshops: Experiences from the Philippines, Nepal and India
2. Mentored peer review as an educational tool
3. Democratization of knowledge: The open access model of the Pacific Journal of Medical Sciences
4. Empowering editors, reviewers and authors in online publication: The BIMJ experience
E. POSTPUBLICATION ACCESS, DISSEMINATION, AND EXCHANGE
1. Hidden structure behind the correlation between academic citations and sharing via social networks: Medicine vs others in PLoS journals
2. Likes, shares, and tweets: The growing role of social media in biomedical literature
3. Letters and comments published in response to research: Postpublication peer review
4. Impact vs. Impact factor among APAME journals
F. STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF REPORTING AND PUBLICATION
1. Continuing Medical Education to improve the quality of research reporting and publication
2. Components of education program for writing medical articles
3. Improving uptake and implementation of the CONSORT Guidelines
4. CARE guidelines for case reports
G. ETHICAL ISSUES AND MISCONDUCT IN THE APAME REGION
1. Editorial independence and commercial issues
2. Scientific misconduct encountered by APAME journals: An online survey
3. Retraction in the APAME region
4. Predatory journals in the APAME region
H. STATISTICS AND REGISTRIES IN RESEARCH
1. Statistical method: which test when?
2. When to use p Values and Confidence Intervals for Reporting Intergroup Comparisons
3. Non-parametric statistics in researches
4. Health research registry: The Philippine setting
I. WORKSHOPS
1. Developing and answering good research question
2. Workshop on Zotero Reference Management Software
3. Plagiarism Detection Tools (e.g. Turnitin, SafeAssign)
4. Technology-enhanced research: Digital management of research workflow
J. REGIONAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION
1. Supervising resident research
2. A cross-sectional online survey on the internet usage of Filipino medical oncologists for continuing medical education
3. Vietnamese medical journals on regional index medicus
4. Trend of similarity index for source country, article type, and rejection rate. A story of The Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
5. Elderly research participant's comprehension of informed consent information equal in written and video format
6. Lexicogrammatical features and cognitive structuring of research articles published in Philippine medical journals: Inputs to understanding health information and publication
K. MAHLAP LECTURE AND WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH ACCESS AND E-JOURNALS
1. Scholarly Publishing Services
2. Standard information technology for e-journal platforms: JATS, DOI, ORCID and FundRef
