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www.WikiJMed.org ISSN: 2002-4436 Frequency: Continuous Since: March 2014 Funding: Wikimedia Foundation Publisher: WikiJournal User Group

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The editorial board handles any confidential article submissions, and has final responsibility for ensuring that robust academic peer review is performed in a timely manner. Information about editorial board responsibilities, and how to apply to join the editorial board, are found below.

Editorial board members

Mikael Häggström

(Editor-in-Chief)
From: March 2014
Fields: medicine, radiology, pathology

Dr Mikael Häggström is from Uddevalla, Sweden, and graduated from Uppsala University, Faculty of Medicine in 2013. He is currently a resident physician in the pathology department at Danbury Hospital, Connecticut.

Gwinyai Masukume

(Assistant Editor-in-Chief)
From: 1 January 2015
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: epidemiology, biostatistics, women's health

Dr Gwinyai Masukume is a medical doctor and public health researcher. He holds a PhD in Medicine and Health. His main interest is Women’s health. As an active researcher, he has completed peer review for 20 journals and has co-authored over 35 publications.

Thomas Shafee

From: 24 July 2016
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: biochemistry, protein evolution, bioinformatics, data science, science communication

Dr Thomas Shafee is a biochemist researching antimicrobial proteins at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, Melbourne, Australia. He is particularly interested in how evolutionary information can be used to improve proteins for human uses.

Michaël R. Laurent

From: 16 August 2016
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: physician

Dr Michaël R. Laurent obtained his medical degree from KU Leuven, Belgium in 2009 and specialized in internal medicine and geriatrics. His PhD in molecular endocrinology regarded the topic of androgens and male osteoporosis. He works as a geriatrician at the Imelda general hospital and as a consultant in metabolic and rare bone diseases at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. He has (co-)authored over 75 publications.

Netha Hussain

From: 3 December 2017
Fields: neuroscience, neurorehabilitation

Dr Netha Hussain obtained a medical degree from Calicut Medical College, India. She has a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has previously volunteered as a Wikipedian-in-Residence at Calicut Medical College. She lives in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Roger Watson

From: 30 January 2018
Fields: nurse, psychometrics

Professor Roger Watson is from the United Kingdom and is based at the University of Hull. Roger serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. He has co-authored over 400 journal articles.

Keith Brain

From: 11 April 2018
Fields: pharmacology, physiology, medical education, autonomic nervous system

Dr Keith Brain graduated in 1999 from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and the lecturer in Pharmacology at Christ Church, Oxford.

Eric Youngstrom

From: 13 June 2018
Fields: clinical psychology, bipolar disorder, child psychology, evidence based assessment, psychometrics

American clinical child and adolescent psychologist, professor of psychology and neuroscience, and psychiatry, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a co-founder of Helping Give Away Psychological Science.

Mark Worthen

From: 8 November 2018
Fields: psychology

Dr Mark David Worthen is a clinical-forensic psychologist in Park City, Utah. He has worked as a front-line clinician for 32 years. He has three wonderful children who have flown the coop and continue to amaze their Daddy with their wit, pluck, and compassion for others.

Jason Dixon

From: 23 November 2018
Fields: clinical psychology, clinical education, psychometrics, epidemiology, clinical supervision

Alaa Najjar

From: 21 December 2018
Fields: physician

Medical doctor studied at Alexandria University. Active on Wikipedia since December 2014. Steward with extensive wiki editing. Has more than 430K edits.

Prashanth N Srinivas

From: 7 June 2019
Fields: public health, health equity

Dr. Prashanth Nuggehalli Srinivas is a medical doctor and public health researcher. He heads the health equity cluster at the Institute of Public Health, Bangalore (India). He is experienced in research on health inequities (especially indigenous health), teaching research methods, health policy engagement, research communication, research leadership.

Angelo Basteris

From: 30 November 2019
Fields: stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, welfare technology

Amelia Buttress

From: 15 May 2020
Fields: public health, cultural studies, media studies, social determinants of health

Dr. Amelia Buttress received a PhD in social and behavioral sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Health, Behavior, & Society in 2014 and an MA from the European Graduate School in 2006. Amelia has worked in human rights, digital arts and media literacy and education, and public mental health. Dr. Buttress has been incorporating Wikipedia into teaching at both the Media, Politics, & Evidence in Public Health and Under Pressure: Health, Wealth, & Poverty levels since 2016.

Candace Makeda Moore

From: 11 October 2020
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: informatics, radiology, data science

Dr. Candace Makeda Moore, MD is both a data scientist and medical doctor. Although she works with medical technology as a computer programmer, her training as both a scientist and clinician inform her work. She has been active for a decade in humanitarian medicine and human rights by coordinating and providing medical care for refugees.

Shani Evenstein Sigalov

(Advisor)
From: 31 July 2019
Fields: educational technology, medical education, education, curriculum development

Working as an EdTech Innovation Strategist at the the NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University [TAU], focusing on Curriculum Development, E-learning Strategies and Medical Education.

Guy Vandegrift

(Advisor)
From: 12 January 2016
Fields: physics, engineering, mathematics

Professor Guy Vandegrift teaches physics and astronomy at the Lake Campus of Wright State University, and is currently working to develop Quizbank.

Previous board members

James Heilman

From: 1 January 2015 to 1 August 2017
Fields: physician, educator, athletics competitor, Wikimedian

Diptanshu Das

From: 21 July 2016 to 9 August 2018
Fields: physician, contributing editor, Wikimedian, neurologist, researcher

Lisa G. Kipersztok

From: 1 January 2015 to 1 January 2019
Fields: researcher

Mike Nicolaije

From: 24 March 2015 to 24 March 2019

Carl Fredrik Sjöland

From: 4 March 2015 to 4 March 2019
Fields: Wikimedian in Residence, researcher

Activity

Article decisions

The purpose of the editorial board is to form consensus about whether to include upcoming articles in the journal, based on multiple factors such as scope, peer reviewer recommendations and utility for Wikipedia. In the same manner as Wikipedia is not a democracy, the means of decision making is discussion leading to consensus; Straw polls can be used to test for consensus, but polls or surveys can impede, rather than foster, discussion.

Editorial board members will be notified by email to wjmboardgooglegroups.com (only accepting emails from board members) when an article submission is up for decision, together with whether it needs to be held strictly confidential or not. An editorial board member does not need to comment on every article submission. In addition, editorial board members should join the public group of WikiJMed to stay updated about what's going on in the project. In practice, members of the editorial board have substantial communication by email, especially for confidential submissions. Public submissions can be discussed at their pages. Anyone may add their opinions and comments for such online discussions.

The main outcomes from inclusion discussions are:

• Acceptance of the article
• Rejection until there is an acceptable peer review of the article
• Rejection until article is modified
• Rejection outright

Other activities

The editorial board also discusses and makes decisions regarding the overall operation of the journal. However, major issues that do not involve confidential matters should be discussed at the journal's public forums, at Talk:WikiJournal of Medicine, and/or the public Google Group of the journal through wijoumedgooglegroups.com. Editorial board members are encouraged to invite potential additional participants to the journal.

Editorial board members may also opt to include themselves in the mailing list about matters related to the overall WikiJournal organization at the general WikiJournal mailing list. Matters that are important to the WikiJournal of Medicine should be emailed to its own mailing list as well. Editorial board members may also participate in online meetings, whose dates are usually announced by the board email list.

All positions in the journal are voluntary, that is, for no financial gain.

Editor-in-chief and assistant

The editor-in-chief has final responsibility for all operations and policies.

The assistant to the editor-in-chief will act in place of the editor-in-chief on the event of his resignation or incapacity.

Both the editor-in-chief and the assistant to the editor-in-chief are expected to participate in public relations of the journal, including interviews and articles when opportunities arise. They are expected to add newly elected board members to the wjmboardgooglegroups.com, whose presentation page (visible to members only) contains additional information for board members.

At least the editor-in-chief and the assistant to the editor-in-chief are entrusted with the journal's password to administer the journal's WikiJMed.org domain at GoDaddy. This domain needs to be renewed every other year, at a cost of approximately $30 each time. Logging into the domain's account at GoDaddy also avails for changing the email addresses included in the common email address (known by the editorial board) for updates about the journal. This site is also where redirection to another target than the current one may be done in the future.

Duties of the editor-in-chief

The editor-in-chief has final responsibilities for the operations and policies of the journal. Contact details of the editor-in-chief should be stated online. The editor-in-chief should act as the point of contact for questions relating to research and publication ethics. The editor-in-chief should acknowledge receipt of communications from institutions and should promptly bring the matter to the editorial board for action. The editor-in-chief should keep the public informed about any changes in the aims and scope of the journal.

The editor-in-chief should not disclose confidential details about work submissions with editor-in-chiefs of other journals, unless the following requirements are fulfilled:

• Such sharing is a necessary part of fulfilling the obligation to prevent and respond to suspected research misconduct
• The authors of the work have been informed about the issue at hand, and have not given a response, or the response was not satisfactory
• The disclosure is limited to journals which are suspected of having been targeted by the research misconduct at hand, or are believed to have pertinent information of the case at hand.
• The recipient editor-in-chief is notified about the sensitive nature of the information.

The amount of disclosed information should be limited to the minimum required. The shared information should be factual, while avoiding conjecture and speculation.

Further reading

• Sharing of Information Among Editors-in-Chief Regarding Possible Misconduct, by COPE

Join

If you are interested in becoming an editorial board member, you need to abide by the following:

• You should be willing to have your full name displayed online as seen in the list of editorial board members. Affiliations should be stated as well.
• You should be familiar with the purpose and structure of the journal, as well as its Bylaws. It is also recommended to be familiar with external guidelines by which the journal abides:

• ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication:
• COPE code of conduct for journal editors:

• You should abide by the confidentiality policies of the journal:

Confidentiality policies

Most authors have allowed their article submissions to WikiJournal to be open-access in the wiki from the very beginning. Still, the main requirement as a member of the editorial board is to not leak those works that authors wish to be confidential up until publication. Many journals do not accept submissions that have been in the open at any time, and thereby authors may be harmed by premature disclosure of any or all of an article submission's details. Editorial board members therefore keep such works confidential by restricting discussions about such articles in email communications or at a closed group at Google Sites, rather than talk page entries in Wikipedia or Wikiversity. Members of the editorial board must not retain such works for their personal use.

You should generally ask for permission from the sender before posting non-public board emails to a public location such as in this wiki or forwarding to the journal's public email lists (wijoumedgooglegroups.com and wikijournal-enlists.wikimedia.org).

Applying

If you agree with the policies, please apply here. This should include a short summary of:

• Medical or biomedical education and experience
• Wikipedia or related project experience
• Publishing or editorial experience
• A statement of acceptance of the policies

All fields are optional, and you do not need to have experience in every area, however some relevant experience is very useful.

Apply to the Editorial Board

The editor-in-chief, or someone appointed by the editor-in-chief, should perform the following tasks:

1. Monitor the applications page, and let the editorial board know about knew applications.
2. The identity of the applicant should be confirmed, if not already properly evidenced. It may be done by contacting the person through an email or number from a public website (suggested email template).
3. Journal members may ask for clarifications or complementary information.
4. The editorial board will form a consensus of whether to let the applicant join the board.

Onboarding process

For applicants accepted to the board, the following tasks should be performed:

1. Mark their application as accepted, by copy-pasting {{subst:WikiJournal accepted board member}} at the bottom of the section.
2. Contact the new editorial board member via email to inform them (Suggested email template)
3. Direct-add the new editorial board member to the board's private email group, which will grant them access to the private page only visible to board members
4. Add them to the Editorial board page using the WikiJournal editor summary template

These tasks can be distributed to any editorial board members of the journal.

Duties of editorial board members

Editorial board members should have a set of talents, experience, and competencies that will best fulfill the needs of the WikiJournal of Medicine. The full names and affiliations of the editorial board members should be displayed online.

Confidentiality

Editorial board members must keep the confidentiality of works, author or peer reviewer identities, or other privileged information unless permission has been granted to disclose such material or information. Editorial board members must not retain confidential works or information for their personal use.

Scientific misconduct

Scientific misconduct is defined as intention or gross negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist. The editorial board members should inform institutions if they suspect misconduct by their researchers, and provide evidence to support these concerns, such as analysis of text similarity in cases of suspected plagiarism, or evidence of inappropriate image manipulation. They should cooperate with investigations and respond to institutions’ questions about misconduct allegations. They should be prepared to issue retractions or corrections when provided with findings of misconduct arising from investigations. They should correct or retract findings that are invalid or unreliable, both when caused by misconduct and by honest errors. Publications should be retracted if they are evidenced to be generally unreliable, while on the other hand a correction should be made in cases where only a small part of the publication is affected while the majority of findings and conclusions are valid.

Editorial board members should investigate allegations of misconduct targeted at peer reviewers of the journal. However, editorial board members may be obliged to protect the identity of whistleblowers.

In cases of scientific misconduct involving several journals, these journals should cooperate and share information as required to resolve the issues.

Editorial board members should keep communications relating to ongoing misconduct investigations confidential between parties.