A New Year's Wish List for Authors, Reviewers, Readers—and Ourselves

1. BarbourG

2009 June 25 Successful intervention by PLoS Medicine and New York Times in Federal court grants public access to evidence that drug company ‘ghostwrote’ medical articles about hormone therapy drug, Prempro [blog posting]. Speaking of Medicine. Available: http://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2009/07/25/successful-intervention-by-plos-medicine-and-new-york-times-in-federal-court-grants-public-access-to-evidence-that-drug-company-%E2%80%98ghostwrote%E2%80%99-medical-articles-about-hormone-therapy-dru/. Accessed: 12 November 2009

2. WislarJ

FlanaginA

FontanarosaPB

DeAngelisCD

2009 Prevalence of Honorary and Ghost Authorship in 6 General Medical Journals, 2008. Available: http://www.ama-assn.org/public/peer/abstracts_2009.html#7. Accessed 12 November 2009

3. 2009 Sharing of Materials, Methods, and Data. PLoS Medicine Editorial and Publishing Policies. Available: http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/policies.action#sharing. Accessed 12 November 2009

4. 2009 PLoS Medicine Reporting Guidelines for Specific Study Designs. a. Clinical Trials. Available: http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/policies.action#clinical_trials. Accessed 12 November 2009

5. 2009 PLoS Medicine Guidelines for Reviewers. 12. Competing Interests. Available: http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/reviewerGuidelines.action#competing. Accessed 12 November 2009

6. 2009 Competing Interests of the PLoS Medicine Editors. Available: http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. Accessed 12 November 2009

7. Committee on Publication Ethics 2009 Code of conduct. Available: http://publicationethics.org/code-conduct. Accessed 12 November 2009

8. PattersonM

2009 September 16 Article-level metrics at PLoS - Addition of usage data [blog posting]. Available: http://www.plos.org/cms/node/485. Accessed 12 November 2009

9. 2009 10:10. Available: http://www.1010uk.org/. Accessed 12 November 2009