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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004;158:926.

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Funding agencies, study participants, and investigators work on the expectation that the results of a research study will be published and widely disseminated. Not to do so is a disservice to both the funding agency and the human subjects who participated in the research, as well as disrespectful to colleagues involved with the study. The desire to communicate results quickly coupled with the interest of faculty in securing additional publications can spawn many manuscripts from a single research effort. Accordingly, it is important to consider how many manuscripts should be written and what to logically include in each.

How to divide up the data from a research project into different manuscripts is a difficult decision that relies heavily on the judgment of the contributing authors. There are few hard and fast rules. One major article published in a high-quality journal that provides a clear answer to a question is often . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH, Editor; Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH, Associate Editor; Peter Cummings, MD, MPH

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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2005;159:197-197.
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