A. Purpose of the Recommendations ICMJE developed these recommendations to review best practice and ethical standards in the conduct and reporting of research and other material published in medical journals, and to help authors, editors, and others involved in peer review and biomedical publishing create and distribute accurate, clear, unbiased medical journal articles. The recommendations may...

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) is a group of general medical journal editors meeting regularly and works on Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (www.ICMJE.org). In doing so it receives comments and suggestions from editors, researchers, associations and funding companies. The committee members ...

In May 2005, the International Council for Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), a group of general medical journal editors who have been responsible for introducing the “uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals”, released a joint editorial statement on registration of clinical trials. ICMJE journals will consider manuscripts reporting clinical trials only if the trial w...

CONTEXT A number of general medical journals and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) request authors to disclose their contributions. Little is known about the effect of journal policies on authors' disclosure of their contributions. OBJECTIVE To determine the number of named authors who do not meet ICMJE criteria for authorship, according to their published contrib...

BACKGROUND To assess how authors would describe their contribution to the submitted manuscript without reference to or requirement to satisfy authorship criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), we analyzed responses of authors to an open-ended question "Why do you think you should be the author on this manuscript?". METHODS Responses of authors (n=1425) who ...

INTRODUCTION Our aim was to investigate if: (a) authors of Biochemia Medica meet authorship criteria given by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), (b) authorship violations are more frequent in submissions containing some type of scientific misconduct. MATERIALS AND METHODS Self-reported authorship contributions regarding the three ICMJE criteria were analysed for all s...

Study Objectives: To validate the feasibility of the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) based cardiopulmonary coupling (CPC) technique in respiratory events detection and estimating the severity of apnea/hypopnea. Methods: The HHT-CPC sleep spectrogram technique was applied to a total of 69 single-lead ECG signals downloaded from Physionet Sleep Apnea Database. Sleep spectrograms generated by both o...