Accountability and Transparency in Medical Publishing: Position and Policies of Le Jacq on Authorship, Acknowledgments, Conflicts of Interest, and Secondary and Redundant Publication

Abstract

e Jacq, an imprint of Wiley-Blackwell, Inc, recognizes the need to maintain rigorous publishing standards committed to promot-ing ethical publication practices across all of our peer-reviewed journals.Le Jacq believes that as editors and publishers, Le Jacq’s role is not to police the veracity of the material that is submitted for publication. The cred-ibility of scientific publication rests with the authors to accurately report clinical information and trial results, disclose conflicts of interest, and detail con-tributions of all parties involved in the development and approval of a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal.This article reviews Le Jacq’s position and poli-cies for the consideration of papers for publication within its scientific journals. Le Jacq encourages eth-ical behavior in the reporting of clinical information and trial results and provides practical guidance to authors and updates current practices, as needed. These policies were developed to offer our journal editors, editorial boards, peer reviewers, authors, and academic society partners a foundation for implementing ethical publication practices.Le Jacq strongly believes in the consistent appli-cation of its policies to any and all manuscripts sub-mitted to its journals for consideration irrespective of the funding sources which may include govern-mental groups, academic medical centers, nonprofit research organizations, or the biotech, device, or pharmaceutical industries.