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Article: Integrity at the Croatian Medical Journal
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- Canadian Medical Association. Journal
- Article date:
- June 17, 2008
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Published at www.cmaj.ca on May 12, 2008. Revised on May 15, 2008.
Editorial independence has surfaced as an issue at the Croatian Medical Journalin the wake of a confrontation between the journal and the most powerful of its 4 owners, the Zagreb University School of Medicine. Most recently, the school has proposed an extensive revision to the journal's governance structure that would rob the journal of its independence,1 in contravention of almost every aspect of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recognized definition of editorial independence.2
This is an extreme incident, but, sadly, not an isolated one in biomedical publishing. Within the last decade JAMA,3 the New ...