2050 - Case-Based Journal Ethics: What Every Author, Reviewer, Editor, and Reader Needs to Know

Sunday, April 24, 2022

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM US MT

Location: Convention Center: 111/113

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Course Number: 2050

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)

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
Meghan McDevitt, n/a

Managing Editor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Alex Kemper (he/him/his)

Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio, United States
DC

Dimitri Christakis, MD MPH

George Adkins Professor
University of Washington School of Medicine
seattle, Washington, United States
Paul Fisher, MD, MHS

Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Neurology and Pediatrics
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Lewis R. First, MD, MS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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

Katherine Poehling, MD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Meghan McDevitt, n/a: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Alex R. Kemper, MD, MPH, MS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Dimitri Christakis, MD MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Paul Graham Fisher, MD:

Elsevier Publishing (Currently Ongoing) (Products/Services: Board Member or Executive Role)
Johnson & Johnson personal stock <$5,000 (Currently Ongoing) (Products/Services: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds)

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: predatory publishing, plagiarism, overlapping and redundant submissions, authorship, conflicts of interest, data fabrication, use of prepublication websites, use of race and ethnicity as a social construct, 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.