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Editorial
. 2017 Jun;69(2):89-94.
doi: 10.1016/j.ehj.2017.05.001. Epub 2017 May 23.

Data sharing: A new editorial initiative of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Implications for the editors' network

Fernando Alfonso  1 , Karlen Adamyan  2 , Jean-Yves Artigou  3 , Michael Aschermann  4 , Michael Boehm  5 , Alfonso Buendia  6 , Pao-Hsien Chu  7 , Ariel Cohen  8 , Livio Dei Cas  9 , Mirza Dilic  10 , Anton Doubell  11 , Dario Echeverri  12 , Nuray Enç  13 , Ignacio Ferreira-González  14 , Krzysztof J Filipiak  15 , Andreas Flammer  16 , Eckart Fleck  17 , Plamen Gatzov  18 , Carmen Ginghina  19 , Lino Goncalves  20 , Habib Haouala  21 , Mahmoud Hassanein  22 , Gerd Heusch  23 , Kurt Huber  24 , Ivan Hulín  25 , Mario Ivanusa  26 , Rungroj Krittayaphong  27 , Chu-Pak Lau  28 , Germanas Marinskis  29 , François Mach  16 , Luiz Felipe Moreira  30 , Tuomo Nieminen  31 , Latifa Oukerraj  32 , Stefan Perings  33 , Luc Pierard  34 , Tatjana Potpara  35 , Walter Reyes-Caorsi  36 , Se-Joong Rim  37 , Olaf Rødevand  38 , Georges Saade  39 , Mikael Sander  40 , Evgeny Shlyakhto  41 , Bilgin Timuralp  42 , Dimitris Tousoulis  43 , Dilek Ural  44 , J J Piek  45 , Albert Varga  46 , Thomas F Lüscher  47 ; Editors' Network European Society of Cardiology Task Force
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Data sharing: A new editorial initiative of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Implications for the editors' network

Fernando Alfonso et al. Egypt Heart J. 2017 Jun.

Abstract

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) provides recommendations to improve the editorial standards and scientific quality of biomedical journals. These recommendations range from uniform technical requirements to more complex and elusive editorial issues including ethical aspects of the scientific process. Recently, registration of clinical trials, conflicts of interest disclosure, and new criteria for authorship -emphasizing the importance of responsibility and accountability-, have been proposed. Last year, a new editorial initiative to foster sharing of clinical trial data was launched. This review discusses this novel initiative with the aim of increasing awareness among readers, investigators, authors and editors belonging to the Editors' Network of the European Society of Cardiology.

Keywords: Authorship; Clinical trial; Data sharing; Editorial ethics; Scientific process; Trial registration.

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