WikiJournal of Medicine/Editors
WikiJournal of Medicine
Open access • Publication charge free • Public peer review • Wikipedia-integrated
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
Who is an editor?
The WikiJournal of Medicine is set up such that anyone can contribute. Minor edits, such as formatting, copyediting and minor wording edits may be done by anyone. Edits that change the meaning of the article require peer review, and should instead be added at the article's Discussion page before triggering a new round of academic peer review.
In a practical sense, the editors of each journal are organised into two groups:
- The editorial board is responsible for journal strategy, has final responsibility for ensuring that robust academic peer review is performed in a timely manner, and handles any confidential article submissions. Information about editorial board responsibilities can be found in the Editorial board page. Upon acceptance into the editorial board, editors are expected to immediately begin assisting with the submission peer review process after onboarding. If you are interested in joining the editorial board, you can apply here.
- The associate editors help in contacting prospective peer reviewers, formatting accepted manuscripts, and integrating suitable material into Wikipedia. They can also vote in board elections. Information about associate editor responsibilities can be found in the Associate editors page. If you are interested in joining as an associate editor, you can apply here.
All previous editor applications can be viewed.
Editorial board members
Mikael Häggström
From: March 2014
Fields: medicine, radiology, pathology
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.