Virginia Barbour Explained

Ginny Barbour
Birth Name:Virginia M. Barbour
Workplaces:Queensland University of Technology
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge (MB BChir, MA)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
Thesis Title:Regulation of the human α-globin genes by their chromatin context
Thesis Url:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244591
Thesis Year:1997
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Virginia M. Barbour is a professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and serves as the Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group. She is best known for being one of the three founding editors of PLOS Medicine, and her various roles in championing the open access movement.[1]

Education

Barbour pursued a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BChir) degree and Master of Arts (MA) degree at the University of Cambridge. This was followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in molecular medicine[2] at the University of Oxford where her research investigated the control of alpha globin genes and was awarded in 1997.[2] [3]

Career and research

Following her education and training, Barbour served as an executive editor at The Lancet between 1994 and 2004. Barbour was one of the three founding editors of PLOS Medicine (2004–2013), and later served as the PLOS Medicine Editorial Director (2012–2014), and the PLOS Medicine and Biology Editorial Director (2014–2015).[4] Barbour has also served as a chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for two terms (2012–2015; 2015–2017).[5] [6] She serves as the director of the Australasian open access strategy group (2015–present), and works as a part-time professor between the Office of Research Ethics & Integrity and the Division of Technology, Information and Learning Services, at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

Barbour has published over 100 peer reviewed publications, generating over 14,000 citations and has an h-index of 20. She has played a role in developing several reporting guidelines and open-access initiatives, including Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT), Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), Healthcare Information For All (HIFA) and Evidence AID.

Selected publications

References

  1. Anon. 2018. Virginia Barbour: Queen of open access. BMJ. en. 363. k4148. 10.1136/bmj.k4148. 0959-8138. 30355729. 53032870 .
  2. DPhil. University of Oxford. Regulation of the human α-globin genes by their chromatin context. Virginia. Barbour. 1997. . jisc.ac.uk. 43192909.
  3. Web site: QUT Staff Profiles Ginny Barbour. staff.qut.edu.au. en. 2019-05-19.
  4. Web site: Responsibly conducting research. Tachibana. Chris. 2017-11-03. Science AAAS. en. 2019-05-19.
  5. Couzin-Frankel. Jennifer. 'Journalologists' use scientific methods to study academic publishing. Is their work improving science?. Science. 2018. 0036-8075. 10.1126/science.aav4758. 115360831 .
  6. Web site: Virginia Barbour Committee on Publication Ethics: COPE. publicationethics.org. 2019-05-19.
  7. Barbour. V M. Williams. P F. Nephrotic syndrome associated with sulphasalazine.. BMJ. 301. 6755. 1990. 818. 0959-8138. 10.1136/bmj.301.6755.818-b. 1977483 . 1663947 .
  8. Barbour. Virginia. UK Biobank: a project in search of a protocol?. The Lancet. 361. 9370. 2003. 1734–1738. 0140-6736. 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13377-6. 12767753 . 37182739 .
  9. Schulz. Kenneth F.. Altman. Douglas G.. Moher. David. the CONSORT Group. 2010-03-24. CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials. BMC Medicine. 8. 1. 18. 10.1186/1741-7015-8-18. 1741-7015. 2860339. 20334633 . free .
  10. Hoffmann. T. C.. Glasziou. P. P.. Boutron. I.. Milne. R.. Perera. R.. Moher. D.. Altman. D. G.. Barbour. V.. Macdonald. H.. Johnston. M.. Lamb. S. E.. Dixon-Woods. M.. McCulloch. P.. Wyatt. J. C.. Chan. A.-W.. Michie. S.. Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide. BMJ. 348. mar07 3. 2014. g1687. 1756-1833. 10.1136/bmj.g1687. 24609605. free. 10072/66804. free.
  11. Shamseer. Larissa. Moher. David. Maduekwe. Onyi. Turner. Lucy. Barbour. Virginia. Burch. Rebecca. Clark. Jocalyn. Jocalyn Clark . Galipeau. James. Roberts. Jason. Shea. Beverley J.. Potential predatory and legitimate biomedical journals: can you tell the difference? A cross-sectional comparison. BMC Medicine. 15. 1. 28. 2017. 1741-7015. 10.1186/s12916-017-0785-9. 28298236 . 5353955 . free .

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