Wikiversity Journal of Medicine/Publishing

Wikiversity Journal of Medicine Type: Open access journal Publication history: 2014-present Frequency: Continuously ISSN: 2001-8762 URL: www.wijoumed.org Social media: Facebook, Twitter

Publishing in Wikiversity Journal of Medicine is free of charge, including peer review.

Wikiversity Journal of Medicine is an ISSN-registered peer reviewed journal with open access. Wikiversity is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, the same organization that runs Wikipedia. Images and text segments from articles published in Wikiversity Journal of Medicine can be integrated into Wikipedia articles, whose vast readership results in a practically high impact of included works. Wikipedia is, after all, the 7th most visited site in the world,^[1] and it is estimated that 50% to 70% of physicians use it as a source of health care information.^[2] For example, each image included in a Wikiversity Journal of Medicine article gets an average of 50,000 views per month from Wikipedia readers.^{[note 1]} Authors of accepted journal articles do not need to perform the integration of content into Wikipedia, but are welcome to participate or give suggestions on this step.

Criteria for inclusion

The criteria for inclusion in Wikiversity Journal of Medicine are as follows:

The article content is not already published in a peer reviewed forum that prohibits further publication.
The author(s), creator(s) and/or sole owner(s) of the exclusive copyright of the work agrees to have it published under a free license (link to list of examples), preferably the "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" license.
Potential conflicts of interests are declared.

Also, Wikiversity Journal of Medicine is particularly in need of articles containing media (such as one or more images) that can be regarded to be of benefit to one or more Wikipedia articles, or in other Wikimedia projects.

Author guidelines

General

Spelling errors, minor grammatical errors and inconsistencies in reference formatting are accepted, since the journal allows for such corrections after publication.
It is recommended that any submitted work includes up to 6 keywords, as well as an email address to be included in the published work for correspondence from readers.
Any images should be in high resolution, preferably of any of the following file types: svg, jpg, png, bmp or tif.
Usage of links are appreciated, including interwiki links such as [[wikipedia:Thorax|chest]] to link to the Wikipedia article Thorax (while rendering it as chest online).
An ORCID code is not required, but is useful to avoid confusion about author identity. It can be mentioned either in the submitted work or separately.

Depending on publication type

Works based on media such as images (example), video or sound are in particular need in Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, in order to amend a shortage of media across wiki projects. As such, the journal holds a pragmatic attitude to the standards of such works, as long as there is plausibility and/or evidence that a media file displays the subject as claimed in its image description. For images or videos where a person may be identified, authors need to assert that a written informed consent was received and that the patient is shown the personal details that are to be published. Informed consent is appreciated for non-identifiable personal descriptions as well.

Example of written consent to be presented to a subject of a media-based work (click to show)

I agree that images (or other file format) of my medical condition can be used for scientific publication in an online medical journal. This publication may also include approximate age, sex and relevant current diseases. Otherwise, the publication will limit usage of identifiable information. No name or social security number will be mentioned in the publication.

Signature: ____________________________________________

Print name : ____________________________________________

A review article (example) should follow Wikipedia's guidelines of reliable sources in medical articles, and should be based on secondary sources where available.
Wikipedia content (example) may be republished in Wikiversity Journal of Medicine. Such material may consist of all the text that the author added to a Wikipedia article, and may consist of miscellaneous details of the subject at hand rather than a comprehensive description. If the submission includes content that the author didn't write in Wikipedia, those authors need to be attributed as co-authors. If content is submitted that was written by multiple Wikipedia authors, they may be attributed as a group by adding et al. and link it to the corresponding history page of the Wikipedia article.
Research articles usually contain the sections Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Ethics approval by an ethics committee or institutional review board, or an adequate explanation whether this was done or not, is needed for works involving research on living and deceased persons, biological material from humans or sensitive personal data.
A reverse publication is where one or more images or other media have already been established in another wiki, and is published in Wikiversity Journal of Medicine in order to acquire a standard format as a reference, such as can easily be done by online DOI generators. For example, the image in Caesarean section photography was already on display in Wikipedia's article on Caesarean section for years before being included in Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, and can now be used in external sources as:

Fadhley, Salim (2014). "Caesarean section photography". Wikiversity Journal of Medicine 1 (2). doi:10.15347/wjm/2014.006. ISSN 20018762. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Caesarean_section_photography.

Submission

For submissions of medical articles fulfilling these criteria, please email Mikael Häggström, editor-in-chief, at:
haggstrom.mikaelwikiversityjournal.org
, as well as a copy to:
infowikiversity.org

Any questions can be emailed to Mikael Häggström as well.

Below is a suggested email that can be copy-pasted for submitting an attached medical article. The text in bold is mandatory, and text between [] brackets should be replaced by the article-specific details.

Dear Mikael Häggström, I hereby affirm that I, [NAME], am the author [or creator] of [ARTICLE TITLE] attached in this email, and I request to have it published in Wikiversity Journal of Medicine. I agree to have this work published under the free license "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" (or comparable license). I affirm that the article content is not already published in a peer reviewed forum that prohibits further publication. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project. Contact details: I agree to have my email address stated online in the work as corresponding author. (or alternatively) I have signed up to Wikipedia/Wikiversity under the username [USERNAME] and entered my email address (during the signup process or under user preferences, so that the email address is hidden from the public, but readers can still correspond through the EmailUser function). Conflicts of interest: My institution [has/has not] at any time received payment or services from a third party (government, commercial, private foundation, etc.) for any aspect of the submitted work (including but not limited to grants, data monitoring board, study design, manuscript preparation, statistical analysis, etc.). I [have / do not have] financial relationships, regardless of amount of compensation, with entities in the bio-medical arena that could be perceived to influence, or that give the appearance of potentially influencing, what I wrote in the submitted work. This includes all sources of revenue paid, or promised to be paid, directly to me or my institution on my behalf over the 36 months prior to submission of the work. (For grants you have received for work outside the submitted work, you should disclose support ONLY from entities that could be perceived to be affected financially by the published work, such as drug companies, or foundations supported by entities that could be perceived to have a financial stake in the outcome. Public funding sources, such as government agencies, charitable foundations or academic institutions, need not be disclosed.) I [have / do not have] patents, whether planned, pending or issued, broadly relevant to the work. There [are / There are no] other relationships or activities that readers could perceive to have influenced, or that give the appearance of potentially influencing, what I wrote in the submitted work. (Explain any additional potential conflicts of interest if present.) [NAME] [INSTITUTION] (if applicable) (such as university or hospital) [DATE]

For multiple authors, there is a separate recommended email format: Submission letter for multiple authors.
Alternatively, each author may send a separate email.

Alternatively, the article can be written as a new page in Wikiversity:

The link to the page is then emailed instead of having it attached as a file. This allows for an open discussion about the article even before inclusion in the journal, in turn resulting in faster and more comprehensive processing since the open-access page has much more activity. On the other hand, pre-publication open-access may make the work ineligible for re-submission to other journals in the future.

Processing

Any work that is emailed and subsequently denied will be kept confidential in order to maintain its eligibility to be submitted to other journals. For all accepted works, peer review and comments from the editorial board will be publicized with it to facilitate further discussion on the topic.

The process of finding and inviting appropriate peer reviewers for article submissions is largely done by collaboration on "a favour for a favour" basis, where authors should assist in finding appropriate peer reviewers for previously submitted works, as directed by the editorial board. In addition, editorial board members also searches for peer reviewers. More information on the subject is found at "Finding peer reviewers" in the Editors page.
Still, this process of finding peer reviewers can take months, so authors may alternatively pay for having a peer review performed from Rubriq (with a request to abide by the journal's peer review guidelines). Peer review statements can then be emailed to Mikael Häggström, editor-in-chief, at:
haggstrom.mikaelwikiversityjournal.org

Appeals and complaints are directed to same email address as above.

Notes

↑ Detailed view count calculation is located at Wikiversity Journal of Medicine/Image view count

References

↑ "The top 500 sites on the web". From Alexa. Retrieved 2015-10-04.
↑ Heilman JM, West AG (2015). "Wikipedia and medicine: quantifying readership, editors, and the significance of natural language". J. Med. Internet Res. 17 (3): e62. doi:10.2196/jmir.4069. PMID 25739399.

This article is issued from Wikiversity - version of the Wednesday, March 30, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.