Upholding standards

JCPSP: Upholding the Highest Scientific and Ethical Standards.

Our policy is to ensure that this Journal upholds the highest scientific and ethical standards and keeps pace with the rapidly advancing world in the field of biomedical sciences. Our editorial board not only maintains quality of articles but also provides guidance to novice in the field of research through its parent body – The College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan. Quality assurance of ...

No bull: upholding community standards in public sharing of biological datasets.

We write as representatives of a multiinstitutional team working since 1997 to sequence the Y chromosomes of eight mammals (human, chimpanzee, rhesus macaque, marmoset, mouse, rat, bull, and opossum) to exacting standards of accuracy and completeness; we are pleased to say that this goal is in sight. Throughout the course of the project, we have publicly shared the immediate products of our eff...

Upholding the highest standards of integrity in the content of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Upholding the integrity of your CMAJ.

On Feb. 29, 2016, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) disbanded the CMAJ’s Journal Oversight Committee (JOC), dismissed Editor-in-Chief Dr. John Fletcher and set up a task force to consult on the future vision and governance of the journal.1 It is not up to us to explain the CMA’s decisions. However, CMAJ’s editors wish to thank Dr. Fletcher for his loyal stewardship of the journal and to as...

Consent Codes: Upholding Standard Data Use Conditions

A systematic way of recording data use conditions that are based on consent permissions as found in the datasets of the main public genome archives (NCBI dbGaP and EMBL-EBI/CRG EGA).