Published by the American Physiological Society – Empowering discovery to improve health THEPHYSIOLOGIST November 2017 • Vol. 60/No. 6 neurology and neuroscience journals 2017 APS Summer Conferences included in PubMed found that: • Twenty-five predatory neurology Cardiovascular Aging: Physiological Bioenergetics: journals were indexed in PubMed, New Frontiers and Old Mitochondria from Bench to accounting for 24.7% of all Friends Bedside predatory neurology journals. August 11-14, 2017 August 27-30, 2017 Westminster, CO San Diego, CA • Fourteen predatory neuroscience journals were indexed in PubMed, accounting for 16.1% of all Special Program and Abstract Issue predatory neuroscience journals. • Only one of the 188 predatory neuroscience or neurology journals A Confusion of Journals: What is appeared in the DOAJ index. PubMed Now? • Only 54.6% of the journals deemed predatory in neuroscience actually Kent Anderson contained articles. CEO, RedLink and RedLink Network The authors note how PubMed Central provides a backdoor into What is PubMed? Is it a search many users’ minds morphed into a PubMed and the National Library of engine? A credentialing system? publisher [a primary publisher in the Medicine (NLM) for these predatory A filter? Is it a publisher? An case of at least two journals (1), and, publishers: enabler of open access (OA) for a time, three (2)], a competitor publishing? A technology provider? (3–7), and a technology provider (8). “Noteworthy, predatory jour- A competitor? Depending on the Its management also has advanced nals are retrievable in the situation, you can answer each of the cause of OA publishing, in catalog of the National Library the above in the affirmative, despite both legitimate and controversial the contradictions many of the ways (9). Part of the extension of Continued on page 311 combinations may cause. PubMed’s original purpose has come through brand extension via Twenty years ago, PubMed was a PubMed Central, which has been credentialing system, an online port used to muddy the waters about THIS ISSUE: of the MEDLINE index. This shift what is PubMed and what is not. of medium quickly made it a search PubMed inclusion has been used, 307 Changing Careers: Are You engine, but one built on a manual for example, as an incentive for Ready and What Steps Do and highly curated index. If your journals to include themselves in You Take? journal was in MEDLINE/PubMed, PubMed Central, eroding the idea it had gone through an exhaustive that PubMed is a neutral arbiter of 314 APS Council Holds Summer evaluation and had earned a badge quality (10). of legitimacy. You were searching Meeting a credentialing system. You were Now, a new twist is emerging, getting filtered results based on and that seems to be that PubMed 390 Inaugural Physiology Majors MEDLINE inclusion criteria, which may be consciously or unwittingly Interest Group Meeting were well-accepted. acting as a facilitator of predatory or unscrupulous publishing. 397 Opposition to VA Research Starting with E-Biomed and Restrictions stretching to PubMed Central, the In a paper published in Neuroscience credentialing system pegged in (11), the authors analyzing the the-aps.org Published by the American Physiological Society – Empowering discovery to improve health THEPHYSIOLOGIST Published bimonthly and distributed by The American Physiological Society Contents 9650 Rockville Pike Michigan Physiological Society Introduces Bethesda, Maryland 20814-3991 A Confusion of Journals: What is PubMed Now? ......................................305 an Undergraduate Physiology Quiz Team ISSN 0031-9376 Competition at Their Annual Meeting ... 379 Mentoring Forum Martin Frank – Editor and Executive Director Changing Careers: Are You Ready and People and Places Dennis Brown – President What Steps Do You Take?........................ 307 Meet APS Awardees ................................ 385 Jane Reckelhoff – Past President Committee Reports Robert Hester and UMMC Colleagues Trademark HumMod Technology ........... 388 Jeff Sands – President-Elect APS Council Holds Summer Meeting in Bethesda ............................................... 314 Jennifer Pluznick Presents at TEDMED .. 388 Councillors Animal Care and Experimentation Charles Tipton Recognized by American David D. 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Mitzelfelt Development Manager, American Physiological Society Leaving research was, in my it may be time to reevaluate your chosen career path. It opinion, the best step I have may be as simple as finding a more engaging project or taken for my career and life and lab environment, or it may be that research is not right has been for many of my friends for you. and colleagues as well. A career change might be the right choice I had classmates in graduate school who, although they for you, too. But how do you