that medical journals have an ethical obligation to share clinical trial data. While this was accepted with mixed responses, the frequency of data sharing has been gradually increasing in different settings. Recently, ICMJE has made another announcement to member journals that all manuscripts that contain results from interventional clinical trials will be required to include a data sharing sta...

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) provides recommendations to improve the editorial standards and scientific quality of biomedical journals. These recommendations range from uniform technical requirements to more complex and elusive editorial issues including ethical aspects of the scientific process. Recently, registration of clinical trials, conflicts of interest ...

Scott Duncan associate director, Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand [email protected] Competing interests: The author has completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/ coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declares: no support from any organisation for the submitted work;...

James D Douketis MD, Vascular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 4A6 Alfonso Iorio MD, Health Information Research Unit, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/ coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the correspo...

DOI 10.5152/dir.2015.0001 Y ou have just finished writing a scientifically sound manuscript on an important subject and you are impatient to submit it right away. Hold on a second! Are you really aware of the journal’s standards and uniform requirements for submission? There are certain requirements that authors need to comply with but commonly overlook when submitting their study. Some of thes...

The author of the above-mentioned paper would like to make the following correction to the first paragraph of the Acknowledgments section on page 16. ‘‘The author received editorial support in the preparation of this report from Kristin Carlin and Jennifer Schwinn, Peloton Advantage, LLC, Parsippany, NJ, USA, funded by Celgene Corporation, Summit, NJ, USA. The author, however, directed and is f...

Discuss authorship and develop a written authorship document (including lead authorship) at an early stage during a project. Check and follow ICMJE criteria on contributorship and authorship. Authors should have (1) contributed substantially to the conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; (2) contributed to writing the paper or revising it critically f...

Much of what follows is taken from ‘The COPE Report 2003’ by Tim Albert and Liz Wager. They, in turn, draw substantially on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines issued in 2001 and updated in 2013. COPE is the acronym of the Committee of Publication Ethics which is a grouping of more than 5000 editors of scientific and learned journals covering all discipline...

Publication bias and selective reporting are recognized problems in the biomedical literature (1–3 ). Positive or favorable findings are more likely to be reported than negative or inconclusive ones. Authors are often disappointed by negative findings and use multiple comparisons and subgroup analyses to generate positive results, while giving scant attention to analyses of negative results (4 ...