International Committee of Medical Journal Editors

Historically, the role of statistics in biomedical research has been largely to test hypotheses. More recently, there has been a move to supplant hypothesis tests from their dominant position by confidence intervals. This move has been endorsed by The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and climaxed with the publication, under the auspices of the British... 

The most common and now recommended approach for identifying race is self-identification. A recent editorial in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) states that individuals should self-designate race to ensure that the designation most closely matches what they believe reflects their personal and cultural background (Winker, 2004). The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, of which JAMA belongs, now requires that authors define how race was measured and to justify their relevance in the analysis. Questions may be either... 

Some of the best work to date on the nature and ethics of authorship has been done by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The most current version of its work is contained in a 2013 document Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Joimials. Recommendations are made on five authorship-related topics the nature of authorship, responsibilities of authors (including matters related to conflicts of interest), responsibilities of authors and referees in the submission and peer-review processes, responsibilities of journal owners, and the protection of research participants. ... 

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (2013). http //www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contiibutors.html... 

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