WAME Listserve Discussions
An archive of potentially useful, lightly edited WAME Listserves, some with brief summaries (summaries are written by one WAME editor, Margaret Winker, and do not represent the opinion of WAME).
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Editorial Review of Advertising
- February 24, 2005
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Photo of the Author in Scientific Literature
- October 13 to October 15, 2006
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How Authors Learn Writing Skills
- October 19 to October 22, 2005
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Supporting Authors With Writers' Block
- June 26 to July 2, 2005
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Ghost Writing for Industry
- January 24 to January 28, 2005
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Ghost Authorship, Ownership of Data, and Industry Influence
- February 20 to February 22, 2005
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Order of Authors
- December 3 to December 6, 2004
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Authorship Dispute
- January 2002
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Surge in Articles on Bioterrorism: Focus or Fraud?
- August 8 to August 9, 2005
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Conflict of Interest Statements
- March 10 to March 23, 2005
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Editors' Conflicts of Interest
- October 20 to October 25, 2004
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Duplicate Publication
- September 21 to September 29, 2005
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Simultaneous Submission to 2 Journals
- June 21 to June 24, 2005
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Duplicate Publication in Multiple Languages
- February 22 to March 3, 2005
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Retaining Manuscript Files
- January 6 to January 9, 2005
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Permission Issues
- December 9 to December 13, 2004
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Term Limits
- December 11, 2004
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Journals' Openness About Peer Review Policy
- October 10 to October 16, 2005
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Authors Who Ignore Rejection and Resubmit
- September 1 to September 5, 2005
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Consideration of Resubmitted Rejected Manuscripts and Educating Authors
- June 9 to June 10, 2005
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Short Reports From Pharmaceutical Companies
- March 8, 2005
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Should Editors Publish in Their Own Journal?
- December 2004
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Access to Authors' Data
- December 9, 2004
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Geopolitical Intrusion on Editorial Decisions
- December 2004
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Retroactive Ethical Approval of Studies Involving Human Subjects
- August 30 to August 31, 2005
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Patient Permission to Publish a Case Report
- July 1 to July 5, 2005
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Lack of IRB Review
- June 19 to June 24, 2005
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HIPAA and Case Reports-Need Some Help
- May 2004
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Pictures of Patients
- August 11 to August 12, 2003
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ISI Impact Factor and the Y Factors
- January 19 to February 15, 2006
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Impact Factor and Journal Importance
- October 17 to October 19, 2005
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Quality Indicators for Journal Content
- July 27 to July 28, 2005
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Journal Impact
- May 2004
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Impact Factor
- September 12, 2003, to March 12, 2004
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Race and Ethnicity: How to We Describe People?
- January 13, 2006
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Position of Translators in the Editorial Process
- August 10 to August 12, 2005
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Value of Technical Editing
- March 2 to March 8, 2005
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Misquotes: Is Anyone Responsible?
- May to June 2004
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Indigenous: To Capitalize or Not
- September 2 to September 18, 2003
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Buying Hits/E-Prints
- September 30 to October 24, 2005
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Electronic Manuscripts Submission: Issues for Authors in Developing Nations
- June 9 to June 10, 2005
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Online Manuscript Peer Review and Tracking Systems
- October 21, 2004, to November 3, 2005
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A Fight for Free Access To Medical Research
- August 5 to August 10, 2003
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Publication of Thesis and Conference Presentations
- June 23 to June 24, 2005
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Fostering Timely Peer Reviews
- May 25 to May 26, 2005
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Blinded Peer Review
- March 13 to March 15, 2005
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Ethical Guidelines, Plagiarism, and Ghost Writing
- December 2003 to January 2004
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Journal Editors and Statistics
- May to June 2004
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Clinical Trials Registry
- September 2004
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Reporting Experimental Treatments
- January 18, 2005-January 20, 2005
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Personal Acknowledgements in Manuscripts
- March 9, 2006
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Anonymity for Authors?
- December 20, 2005 to January 10, 2006
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When Should Authorship Forms Be Submitted?
- February 14 to February 22, 2006
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Building Bridges Between Scientists and the Public
- February 21 to February 23, 2006
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Citing Web Pages
- December 21 to December 31, 2005
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Control of Publication by Manufacturers
- October 7 to October 8, 2005
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Peer Review of Editorials
- February 6 to February 25, 2006
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Editors' Decisions on Manuscripts
- December 28, 2005 to January 3, 2006
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Editorial Independence and Media Relations
- February 23 to February 24, 2006
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Manipulating the Impact Factor
- March 7 to March 16, 2006
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Keeping Up With the Literature
- February 22 to February 26, 2006
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The Purpose of ISSN and ISBN Classifications
- January 27, 2006 to February 2, 2006
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JAMA Requirements for Industry-Funded Trails Questioned in BMJ
- December 9 to December 11, 2005
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Reviewing a Colleague's Work
- October 21, 2005
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Manuscript Titles in the Form of a Question
- February 17, 2006
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How Does Scientific Research Progress?
- January 12 to January 25, 2006
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Retraction for Scientific Error
- October 20 to October 24, 2005
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Refusal to Supply Authors With a Copy of Their Work
- February 16 to February 17, 2006
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Sharing Reprint Revenues With Authors
- January 15 to January 18, 2006
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Software to Detect Plagiarism
- November 12 to November 13, 2005
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Impact Factor and Classification of Articles by ISI
- October 17 through 19, 2005
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Undeserved Authorship
- February 15 to February 17, 2006
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Advertising and Editorial Guidelines
- April 8 to April 10, 2006
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Editorial Actions in Response to Personal Misconduct of Authors
- May 12 to May 16, 2006
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Sudden Withdrawal of Paper
- April 28 to May 8, 2006
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A Sponsor as Author on an "Independent" Study
- May 22 to May 23, 2006
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Author Indexing on Medline
- April 5 to April 7, 2006
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Publishing an Article Despite Commercial or Legal Threats
- April 25 to April 28, 2006
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Tips for Publishing an Association Journal
- May 17, 2006
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Selection of Editors-in-Chief
- May 13 to May 29, 2006
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Open Access to Journal Content
- February 16 to March 11, 2006
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Why Don't Articles Include a Statement of Peer Review?
- May 24 to May 25, 2006
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How to Handle Plagiarism Without Destroying the Author
- February 14 to February 18, 2005
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Unpublished Plagiarism
- May 17 to May 18, 2006
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Online Publication
- January 17 to January 26, 2006
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Rejecting Manuscripts Without Review
- May 4, 2005
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A Survey of Canadian Doctors: Questions About Impact Factor
- July 25 to August 1, 2006
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Removing An Author’s Name on Proof
- July 31 to August 1, 2006
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An Arab-Israeli Journal to Promote Peace
- August 4 to August 7, 2006
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Editorial Withdrawal of an Article Posted on the Journal Web Site
- June 9 to June 23, 2006
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October 13 to October 15, 2006
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Authors’ Review of Edited Proofs
- June 21 to June 26, 2006
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What Medicine and Medical Journal Editing Mean to Me
- October 12 to October 16, 2006
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Lessons of the Recent CMAJ Episode
- October 26 to October 27, 2006
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Regional Indexes
- October 27 to October 30, 2006
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Requesting Raw Data from the Author
- June 28 to July 3, 2006
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Policies on Letters to the Editor
- March 2, 2007 to March 7, 2007
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Republishing an Article Published in a Now-Defunct Journal
- January 3, 2007 to January 5, 2007
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Rewarding Peer Reviewers: Payment vs Other Types of Recognition
- February 12, 2007 to February 20, 2007
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What is a “Small” Medical Journal?
- January 20, 2007 to January 21, 2007

