Wikiversity Journal of Medicine/Editorial board
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This page is for the editorial board of Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, forming consensus about what articles to include in the journal, based on multiple factors such as article peer reviews and utility for Wikipedia.
Members
| Editorial board member | Academic status | Other positions in this journal | Member since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikael Häggström | MD | Editor-in-chief | 1 January 2015 |
| Gwinyai Masukume | MB ChB(UZ), Dip Obst(SA), MSc(Wits) | Assistant to the editor-in-chief | 1 January 2015 |
| Lisa Kipersztok | MD, MPH | 1 January 2015 | |
| James Heilman | MD, CCFP-EM | 1 January 2015 | |
| Carl Fredrik Sjöland | med. kand. | 4 March 2015 | |
| Mike Nicolaije | BSc(med), BSc(bio-chem), BLS/AED instr. | 24 March 2015 | |
| Guy Vandegrift | PhD, Assoc. Prof. Physics, Wright State University | 12 January 2016 |
Activity
The purpose of the editorial board is to form consensus about whether to include upcoming articles in the journal, based on multiple factors such as article peer reviews and utility for Wikipedia. In the same manner as Wikipedia is not a democracy, the means of decision making is discussion leading to consensus; Straw polls can be used to test for consensus, but polls or surveys can impede, rather than foster, discussion.
Editorial board members will be notified by email (this can be changed to other means of communication upon request) when an article submission is up for decision, together with a note whether it needs to be held strictly confidential or not. An announcement will be made at Wikiversity Journal's page at WikiProject Medicine as well. An editorial board member does not need to comment on every article submission.
Discussion can be held by email correspondence, or, for works that do not necessarily need to be held confidential, at their corresponding Wikiversity talk pages online. Anyone may add their opinions and comments for such online discussions. In practice, members of the editorial board have substantial communication by email, but whenever subjects do not involve confidential works then anyone may ask to get such email updates, such as by leaving a note on this talkpage.
The main outcomes from inclusion discussions are:
- Acceptation of the article
- Rejection until there is an acceptable peer review of the article
- Rejection until article is modified
- Rejection outright
Editorial board members are encouraged to invite potential additional members, as well as authors and editors.
Editorial board members may also opt to include themselves in the mailing list about matters related to the overall Wikiversity Journal organization, by contacting the editor-in-chief. Matters that are important to Wikiversity Journal of Medicine should be emailed to its own mailing list as well.
All positions in the journal are voluntary, that is, for no financial gain.
Editor-in-chief and assistant
The editor-in-chief (currently Mikael Häggström, since 8 March 2015) has final responsibility for all operations and policies.
The assistant to the editor-in-chief (currently Gwinyai Masukume, since 10 October 2015) will act in place of the editor-in-chief on the event of his resignation or incapacity.
At least the editor-in-chief and the assistant to the editor-in-chief are entrusted with the journal's password to administer the journal's wijoumed.org domain at GoDaddy. This domain needs to be renewed every other year, at a cost of approximately $30 each time. Logging into the domain's account at GoDaddy also avails for changing the email addresses included in the common email address (known by the editorial board) for updates about the journal. This site is also where redirection to another target than the current one may be done in the future.
These two people also possess the password at Crossref in order to assign DOI codes to accepted articles.
Join
If you are interested in becoming an editorial board member, following are policies that you are expected to abide by:
- You should be willing to have your full name displayed online as seen above in the "Members" section. Preferably, affiliations should be stated as well.
- Be familiar with the purpose and structure of the journal, as well as the external guidelines by which the journal abides:
- ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication:
- COPE code of conduct for journal editors:
- Abide by the confidentiality policies of the journal:
Confidentiality policies
Most authors have allowed their article submissions to Wikiversity Journal to be open-access in the wiki from the very beginning. Still, the main requirement as a member of the editorial board is to not leak those works that authors wish to be confidential up until publication. Many journals do not accept submissions that have been in the open at any time, and thereby authors may be harmed by premature disclosure of any or all of an article submission's details. Editorial board members therefore keep such works confidential by restricting discussions about such articles in email communications or at a closed group at Google Sites, rather than talk page entries in Wikipedia or Wikiversity. Members of the editorial board must not retain such works for their personal use.
Applying
If you agree with the policies, please make an entry at this Discuss page including:
- a short presentation about yourself,
- any Wikipedia or Wikiversity involvement of yours, as well as any other biomedical education and/or experience,
- an acceptance of the confidentiality policies, such as by "I will act in accordance with the confidentiality policies of Wikiversity Journal of Medicine".
Upon acceptance, you should provide an email address for updates on matters for the editorial board, by emailing Mikael Häggström at haggstrom.mikael
wikiversityjournal.org