Department of Pharmacoepidemiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health, Kyoto, Japan.
Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER) Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
PLoS One. 2024 Jul 16;19(7):e0305707. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305707. eCollection 2024.
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has published Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. These provide a global standard for writing and editing medical articles, including research integrity. However, no study has examined the research integrity-related content of Japanese medical journals' Instructions for Authors. We therefore compared research integrity content in ICMJE member journals with those in the English- and Japanese-language journals of the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences (JAMS).
This was a descriptive literature study. We obtained Instructions for Authors from English- and Japanese-language journals listed on the JAMS website and the ICMJE member journals listed on the ICMJE website as of September 1, 2021. We compared the presence of 20 topics (19 in the ICMJE Recommendations plus compliance with ICMJE) in the Instructions for Authors, and analyzed the content of the conflict of interest disclosure.
We evaluated 12 ICMJE member journals, and 82 English-language and 99 Japanese-language subcommittee journals. The median number of topics covered was 10.5 for ICMJE member journals, 10 for English-language journals, and three for Japanese-language journals. Compliance with ICMJE was mentioned by 10 (83%) ICMJE member journals, 75 (91%) English-language journals, and 29 (29%) Japanese-language journals. The ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Form was requested by seven (64%) ICMJE member journals, 15 (18%) English-language journals, and one (1%) Japanese-language journal.
Although the topics in the JAMS English-language journals resembled those in the ICMJE member journals, the median value of ICMJE-related topic inclusion was approximately one-third lower in JAMS Japanese-language journals than in ICMJE member journals. It is hoped that Japanese-language journals whose conflict of interest disclosure policies differ from ICMJE standards will adopt international standards to deter misconduct and ensure publication quality.
国际医学期刊编辑委员会（ICMJE）发布了《医学期刊学术工作的撰写、编辑和发表规范》建议。这些建议为医学文章的撰写和编辑提供了全球标准，包括研究诚信。然而，尚无研究调查日本医学期刊《作者须知》中的研究诚信相关内容。因此，我们比较了 ICMJE 成员期刊和日本医学协会（JAMS）的英文和日文期刊的研究诚信内容。
这是一项描述性文献研究。我们从 JAMS 网站上列出的英文和日文期刊以及 ICMJE 网站上列出的 ICMJE 成员期刊中获取了《作者须知》。我们比较了《作者须知》中 20 个主题（19 个来自 ICMJE 建议，外加遵守 ICMJE）的存在情况，并分析了利益冲突披露的内容。
我们评估了 12 种 ICMJE 成员期刊和 82 种英文期刊和 99 种日文期刊。ICMJE 成员期刊涵盖的主题中位数为 10.5 个，英文期刊为 10 个，日文期刊为 3 个。10 种（83%）ICMJE 成员期刊、75 种（91%）英文期刊和 29 种（29%）日文期刊提到了遵守 ICMJE。7 种（64%）ICMJE 成员期刊、15 种（18%）英文期刊和 1 种（1%）日文期刊要求使用 ICMJE 利益冲突披露表。
尽管 JAMS 英文期刊的主题与 ICMJE 成员期刊相似，但 JAMS 日文期刊中与 ICMJE 相关的主题纳入中位数值比 ICMJE 成员期刊低约三分之一。希望那些利益冲突披露政策与 ICMJE 标准不同的日文期刊采用国际标准，以遏制不当行为并确保出版质量。
