Resources

We invite editors to read the resources categorizes as follows. Most of the resources are from the World Association of Medical Editors, which we assume can serve for non-medical journals too.

MoSHE Directive, Guideline and Checklist for Journals

 

Directive for Nat Journ Eval & Accred – MoSHE

Guideline for Journal Evaluation – MoSHE

Checklist for Journals Applying for Accreditation

 

Ethics and Professionalism

• Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

• Professionalism Code of Conduct for Medical Journal Editors

• Publication Ethics Policies for Medical Journals

• The Relationship Between Journal Editors-in-Chief and Owners (formerly titled Editorial Independence)    

• COPE Publication Ethics Flowcharts

• EQUATOR reporting guidelines

• ICMJE

Conflicts of Interest

• Conflict of Interest in Peer-Reviewed Medical Journals

• WAME Editorial: Conflict of Interest in Peer-Reviewed Medical Journals: The World Association of Medical Editors Position on a Challenging Problem  

• COPE Publication Ethics Flowcharts

• EQUATOR reporting guidelines

• ICMJE

Authors

• Ghost Writing Initiated by Commercial Companies

• Identifying Predatory or Pseudo-Journals  

• EQUATOR reporting guidelines

• ICMJE

Peer Review

• Wiley. How to Peer Review? https://authorservices.wiley.com/Reviewers/journal-reviewers/how-to-perform-a-peer-review/index.html

• FAME peer review guideline

• Impact Factor

• Peer Reviewer Selection and Contact to Prevent Peer Review Manipulation by Authors

• The Registration of Clinical Trials  

• EQUATOR reporting guidelines

• ICMJE

• INASP

Policy Archives

The following policies have been incorporated into subsequent policies.

• Federal democratic of Ethiopia, Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Directive on Establishing and Implementing a National system of Journal Evaluation and Accreditation. September 2019

• Federal democratic of Ethiopia, Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Guideline for Evaluation of Journals published in Ethiopia.  September 2019

• Free Journal Access for Poor Nations, superseded by Promoting Global Health

• The Responsibilities of Medical Editors, superseded by Professionalism Code of Conduct