Case-Based Journal Ethics: What Every Author, Reviewer, Editor, and Reader Need to Know

Sunday, April 30, 2023

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Location: Convention Center: 102 B

CE: Live CME: 1.50

Leader(s)

Lewis First, MD, MS (he/him/his)

Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Paul Fisher, MD, MHS

Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Neurology and Pediatrics
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Peter Szilagyi, MD MPH (he/him/his)

Professor
Pediatrics
UCLA
Los Angeles, California, United States
Katherine Poehling, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Professor
Pediatrics
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
DC

Dimitri Christakis, MD MPH

George Adkins Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine
seattle, Washington, United States
Alex Kemper (he/him/his)

Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Robert Jacobson, M.D. (he/him/his)

Professor of Pediatrics
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Disclosure(s):

Lewis R. First, MD, MS: No financial relationships to disclose

Paul G. Fisher, MD, MHS: Neurocrine Biosciences: Advisory Committee (Ongoing)

Peter G. Szilagyi, MD MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Katherine Poehling, MD, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

Dimitri Christakis, MD MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

Alex Kemper: No financial relationships to disclose

Robert M. Jacobson, M.D.: Abbott Laboratories: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds (Ongoing); AbbVie Company: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds (Ongoing); Becton Dickinson & Co: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds (Ongoing); Eli Lilly & Company: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds (Ongoing); Johnson & Johnson: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds (Ongoing); Merck & Co., Inc.: Contractor including contracted research (Ongoing); Moderna, Inc.: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator (Ongoing); Takeda Pharma Co.: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds (Ongoing)

Workshop

Description: Publication ethics is something that every author, reviewer, and editor should be aware of, and yet, unethical behaviors can and do occur in all phases of writing and publishing a manuscript. In this workshop, editors from four of the leading pediatric medical journals (Academic Pediatrics, JAMA Pediatrics, The Journal of Pediatrics, and Pediatrics) will simplify the often complex issues of publication ethics by presenting a variety of real-life cases that raise ethical issues for discussion. Topics to be presented include: ethical issues related to equity, diversity, and inclusion issues in publishing, predatory publishing, plagiarism, overlapping and redundant submissions, authorship, conflicts of interest, data fabrication, use of prepublication websites, and penalties for ethical breaches. Attendees will be given the opportunity to become editors to assess and solve these cases involving ethical transgressions. and devise ways to prevent these improprieties from occurring. Useful resources and take-home materials will be provided to support the case discussions, so that lessons learned during the workshop can in turn be shared with colleagues at home institutions. Personal examples from home institutions will be welcomed during a closing question-and-answer panel discussion.

Learning Objectives:

Examine the role that publications ethics can play in the quality of medical literature published, the peer review process, and ultimately the care of children and adolescents
Manage to avoid ethical pitfalls when submitting and publishing manuscripts
Equip attendees with the knowledge and resources to apply lessons learned in the workshop to their own institution's ethical publishing issues