Academics may know the ICMJE guidelines, i.e., the ICMJE Recommendations, that are widely used by global academia:
http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf
1. The ICMJE has no hierarchical structure, has one secretary (Dr. Darren B. Taichman), with a secretariat at the American College of Physicians (ACP) in Philadelphia.
2. There are only about 12 “official” ICMJE members, but none of them hold any stated position within the ICMJE:
http://www.icmje.org/about-icmje/
http://www.icmje.org/about-icmje/faqs/icmje-membership/
3. Over 3000 journals claim to follow the ICMJE Recommendations. However, the ICMJE states that:
“The ICMJE cannot verify the completeness or accuracy of this list. There may be some journals that follow the ICMJE recommendations, but have never requested listing. There may be some listed journals that do not follow all of the many recommendations and policies in the document.” This means that the ICMJE wants boast large numbers of compliant members but does not want to take responsibility if any of those members are non-compliant.
4. A PDF file of 17 pages of rules for ethics and publishing, is being forcefully applied to, in some cases, millions of biomedical scientists around the world by select societies, journals and publishers.
What do academics think about the ICMJE, and do they think that so few individuals should weild so much influence?
And of course I forgot to say very'll gladly follow any comments of our colleagues and your answers to them!
Jasenko, thank you so much for your passionate and positive response. As we see more and more chaos in science and science publishing, we are also seeing more and more rules, ethics, limitations and the constriction of authors' rights. Science watchdogs are rising and some are linked to ethics organizations. Ethics starts to look rather fuzzy as these groups with different interests, and with different powers and possibly also financial conflicts of interest start to merge and collaborate. As equally as a population would ask tough questions of their government, so too should academics start to ask tough questions, and expect full and transparent answers, from those who impose rules and ethics on us. The ICMJE is a good place to start but there are several other groups that merit scrutiny.
I think we need to restore the original Hippocrates advocated by our high competence, commitment to fully work and high ethical values, and strictly prohibits the commercialization and medicine that unfortunately some governments are increasingly being introduced into the health system !!!!
O.K. I answered on yours private e mail! I understood all ! Thanks on advice!!!
Regards
Any biomedical researcher, journal or publisher that claims to follow ICMJE guidelines, had best read this paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320695220
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