WikiJournal of Medicine/Editorial board
WikiJournal of Medicine
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www.WikiJMed.org
ISSN: 2002-4436
Frequency: Continuous
Since: March 2014
Funding: Wikimedia Foundation
Publisher: WikiJournal User Group
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2020:
Article in The Signpost
2019:
Presentation at Wikimania 2019
Presentation at American Psychological Association
Article in The Signpost
Article in the Wikimedia UK blog
2018:
Presentation at APO forum
Interview with Wikimedia Foundation
Winners of the best articles submitted in 2017
Gained COPE membership
Presentation at Wikimania 2018
The editorial board handles any confidential article submissions, and has final responsibility for ensuring that robust academic peer review is performed in a timely manner. Information about editorial board responsibilities, and how to apply to join the editorial board, are found below.
Editorial board members
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Mikael Häggström 
From: March 2014
Fields: medicine, radiology, pathology, informatics
Dr Mikael Häggström is from Uddevalla, Sweden, and graduated from Uppsala University, Faculty of Medicine in 2013. He is currently a clinical informatics fellow at University of Minnesota.
Gwinyai Masukume
From: 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2022
Additionally: deputy social media manager
Fields: epidemiology, biostatistics, women's health, Wikipedia
Dr Gwinyai Masukume is a medical doctor and public health researcher. He holds a PhD in Medicine and Health. His main interest is Women’s health. As an active researcher, he has completed peer review for 20 journals and has co-authored over 35 publications.
Thomas Shafee
From: 24 July 2016
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: biochemistry, protein evolution, bioinformatics, convergent evolution, protein engineering, experimental evolution, data science, data visualization, science communication
Dr Thomas Shafee is a biochemist researching antimicrobial proteins at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, Melbourne, Australia. He is particularly interested in how evolutionary information can be used to improve proteins for human uses.
Michaël R. Laurent
From: 16 August 2016
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: geriatrics
Dr Michaël R. Laurent obtained his medical degree from KU Leuven, Belgium in 2009 and specialized in internal medicine and geriatrics. His PhD in molecular endocrinology regarded the topic of androgens and male osteoporosis. He works as a geriatrician at the Imelda general hospital and as a consultant in metabolic and rare bone diseases at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. He has (co-)authored over 100 publications.
Netha Hussain
From: 3 December 2017
Fields: neuroscience, neurorehabilitation
Dr Netha Hussain obtained a medical degree from Calicut Medical College, India. She has a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has previously volunteered as a Wikipedian-in-Residence at Calicut Medical College. She lives in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Roger Watson
From: 30 January 2018
Fields: nursing, psychometrics, nursing care, human nutrition
Professor Roger Watson is from the United Kingdom and is based at the University of Hull. Roger serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. He has co-authored over 400 journal articles.
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Keith Brain
From: 11 April 2018
Fields: pharmacology, physiology, medical education, autonomic nervous system
Dr Keith Brain graduated in 1999 from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and the lecturer in Pharmacology at Christ Church, Oxford.
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Eric Youngstrom
From: 13 June 2018
Fields: clinical psychology, bipolar disorder, child psychology, evidence based assessment, psychometrics, symptoms dissemination, adolescent psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry
American clinical child and adolescent psychologist, professor of psychology and neuroscience, and psychiatry, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a co-founder of Helping Give Away Psychological Science.
Mark Worthen
From: 8 November 2018
Fields: psychology
Mark D Worthen PsyD is a clinical-forensic psychologist in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Jason Dixon
From: 23 November 2018
Fields: clinical psychology, clinical education, psychometrics, epidemiology, clinical supervision
Alaa Najjar
From: 21 December 2018
Fields: physician, Wikimedian, Internet activist
Medical doctor studied at Alexandria University. Active on Wikipedia since December 2014. Steward with extensive wiki editing. Has more than 430K edits.
Amelia Buttress
From: 15 May 2020
Fields: public health, cultural studies, media studies, social determinants of health
Dr. Amelia Buttress received a PhD in social and behavioral sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Health, Behavior, & Society in 2014 and an MA from the European Graduate School in 2006. Amelia has worked in human rights, digital arts and media literacy and education, and public mental health. Dr. Buttress has been incorporating Wikipedia into teaching at both the Media, Politics, & Evidence in Public Health and Under Pressure: Health, Wealth, & Poverty levels since 2016.
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
From: 31 July 2019
Additionally: adviser
Fields: educational technology, medical education, education, curriculum development, Wikipedia, Wikidata, digital humanities, self-regulated learning, generative artificial intelligence, lifelong learning, collaborative learning, flip teaching
Working as an EdTech Innovation Strategist at the the NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University [TAU], focusing on Curriculum Development, E-learning Strategies and Medical Education.
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Guy Vandegrift
From: 12 January 2016
Additionally: adviser
Fields: physics, engineering, mathematics
Professor Guy Vandegrift teaches physics and astronomy at the Lake Campus of Wright State University, and is currently working to develop Quizbank.
Daniel Oerther
From: 13 June 2022
Fields: environmental biotechnology, food security, sanitation, drinking water
Professor Daniel B. Oerther is from the United States and is based at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dan currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Engineering and previously served as an international editorial advisory board members for the journal Perspectives in Public Health. He has co-authored over 100 journal articles.
Athikhun Suwannakhan
From: 13 November 2022
Fields: Clinical anatomy, anatomical variations, computed tomography, systematic review, meta-analysis
Dr. Athikhun Suwannakhan is an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok. His research interests include human anatomy, clinical significance of anatomical variations, systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
Previous board members
James Heilman
From: 1 January 2015 to 1 August 2017
Fields: physician
Diptanshu Das
From: 21 July 2016 to 9 August 2018
Fields: neurology
Lisa G. Kipersztok
From: 1 January 2015 to 1 January 2019
Fields: researcher
Mike Nicolaije
From: 24 March 2015 to 24 March 2019
Carl Fredrik Sjöland
From: 4 March 2015 to 4 March 2019
Fields: Wikimedian in residence, researcher
Kai Zhang
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Fields: researcher
Angelo Basteris
From: 30 November 2019
Fields: stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, welfare technology
Prashanth N Srinivas
From: 7 June 2019
Fields: public health, health equity
Candace Makeda Moore
From: 11 October 2020
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: informatics, radiology, data science
Activity
Coordinating peer reviews
[edit | edit source]Editorial board members are expected to participate in the coordination of the peer review process of submitted articles to the board. This includes corresponding with the author, identifying potential peer reviewers, corresponding with peer reviewers and reminding peer reviewers of the review due dates. An editorial board member does not need to participate in the peer review coordination of every submitted article.
Article decisions
[edit | edit source]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 scope, peer reviewer recommendations 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 to wjmboard
googlegroups.com (only accepting emails from board members) when an article submission is up for decision, together with whether it needs to be held strictly confidential or not. An editorial board member does not need to comment on every article submission. In addition, editorial board members should join the public group of WikiJMed to stay updated about what's going on in the project. In practice, members of the editorial board have substantial communication by email, especially for confidential submissions. Public submissions can be discussed at their pages. Anyone may add their opinions and comments for such online discussions.
The main outcomes from inclusion discussions are:
- Acceptance of the article
- Rejection until there is an acceptable peer review of the article
- Rejection until article is modified
- Rejection outright
Other activities
[edit | edit source]The editorial board also discusses and makes decisions regarding the overall operation of the journal. However, major issues that do not involve confidential matters should be discussed at the journal's public forums, at Talk:WikiJournal of Medicine, and/or the public Google Group of the journal through wijoumedgooglegroups.com. Editorial board members are encouraged to invite potential additional participants to the journal.
Editorial board members may also opt to include themselves in the mailing list about matters related to the overall WikiJournal organization at the general WikiJournal mailing list. Matters that are important to the WikiJournal of Medicine should be emailed to its own mailing list as well. Editorial board members may also participate in online meetings, whose dates are usually announced by the board email list.
All positions in the journal are voluntary, that is, for no financial gain.
Editor-in-chief and assistant
[edit | edit source]The editor-in-chief has final responsibility for all operations and policies.
The assistant to the editor-in-chief will act in place of the editor-in-chief on the event of his resignation or incapacity.
Both the editor-in-chief and the assistant to the editor-in-chief are expected to participate in public relations of the journal, including interviews and articles when opportunities arise. They are expected to add newly elected board members to the wjmboardgooglegroups.com, whose presentation page (visible to members only) contains additional information for board members.
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 WikiJMed.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.
- Duties of the editor-in-chief
WikiJournal User Group/Ethics statement
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If you are interested in becoming an editorial board member, you need to abide by the following:
- You should be willing to have your full name displayed online as seen in the list of editorial board members. Affiliations should be stated as well.
- You should be familiar with the purpose and structure of the journal, as well as its Bylaws. It is also recommended to be familiar with external guidelines by which the journal abides:
- ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication: [1]
- COPE code of conduct for journal editors: [2]
- You should abide by the confidentiality policies of the journal:
Confidentiality policies
[edit | edit source]Most authors have allowed their article submissions to WikiJournal 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.
You should generally ask for permission from the sender before posting non-public board emails to a public location such as in this wiki or forwarding to the journal's public email lists (wijoumedgooglegroups.com and wikijournal-enlists.wikimedia.org).
Applying
[edit | edit source]If you agree with the policies, please apply here. This should include a short summary of:
- Medical or biomedical education and experience
- Wikipedia or related project experience
- Publishing or editorial experience
- A statement of acceptance of the policies
All fields are optional, and you do not need to have experience in every area, however some relevant experience is very useful.
The editor-in-chief, or someone appointed by the editor-in-chief, should perform the following tasks:
- Monitor the applications page, and let the editorial board know about knew applications.
- The identity of the applicant should be confirmed, if not already properly evidenced. It may be done by contacting the person through an email or number from a public website (suggested email template).
- Journal members may ask for clarifications or complementary information.
- The editorial board will form a consensus of whether to let the applicant join the board.
Onboarding process
[edit | edit source]For applicants accepted to the board, the following tasks should be performed:
- Mark their application as accepted, by copy-pasting {{subst:WikiJournal accepted board member}} at the bottom of the section.
- Contact the new editorial board member via email to inform them (Suggested email template)
- Direct-add the new editorial board member to the board's private email group, which will grant them access to the private page only visible to board members
- Add them to the Editorial board page using the WikiJournal editor summary template
These tasks can be distributed to any editorial board members of the journal.
Duties of editorial board members
WikiJournal User Group/Ethics statement
Duties of the editor-in-chief
WikiJournal User Group/Ethics statement
- Full ethics statement, by the WikiJournal User Group