A Matter of Trust: Introducing the Journal Scientific Integrity Policy

摘要

Scientific publishing relies on the trust between a journal and its readership: trust that the experiments have been ethically performed and faithfully documented, that the research report has been carefully vetted by experts in the field, and that the publication process has been executed in a thoughtful and timely manner. Such ideals are not new to The American Journal of Pathology; we have always valued scientific and publishing integrity and have followed the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE1 ). However, to provide greater transparency and accountability for our expectations of authors and reviewers, as well as to delineate what our authors and readers should expect from us, we have established a formal Journal Scientific Integrity Policy.2