WAME Board members coauthor multi-journal editorial "Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us" WAME President Chris Zeilinski and WAME Vice President Jose Florencio F. Lapeña Jr. represent WAME as coauthors on the editorial; more than 130 health journals co-published it.

Context Explanation

About Us What is WAME? Established in 1995, WAME (pronounced “whammy”) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit voluntary association of editors of peer-reviewed medical journals from countries throughout the world who seek to foster international cooperation among and education of medical journal editors. Policies for Medical Journal Editors, prepared by the WAME Ethics and Policy Committee (formerly the Publication Ethics and Editorial Policy Committees) WAME encourages those who are qualified and interested to translate WAME policy into languages other than English (the language of record for WAME policies to date). As a service to members, WAME will post links and/or copies of such ...

Insight Material

Recommendations on Publication Ethics Policies for Medical Journals Prepared by the WAME Publication Ethics Committee The purpose of a policy on ethical principles Medical journals aspire to select, through peer review, the highest quality science. To achieve this, the entire peer review and publication process must be thorough, objective, and ... WAME Recommendation 5: Editors need appropriate tools to help them detect content generated or altered by AI. Such tools should be made available to editors regardless of ability to pay for them, for the good of science and the public, and to help ensure the integrity of healthcare information and reducing the risk of adverse health outcomes. The following WAME recommendations are intended to inform editors and help them develop policies regarding chatbots for their journals, to help authors understand how use of chatbots might be attributed in their work, and address the need for all journal editors to have access manuscript screening tools.

Final Conclusion

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organizations that have collaborated to identify principles of transparency and best practice for scholarly publications. This is the fourth version of a work in progress ... Editors who are WAME Members are or were affiliated with the following journals at the time they became Members. WAME does not endorse journals and does not have journals as members.