The Journal of pathology
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The Journal of pathology · Dec 2012
EditorialQuality really matters: the need to improve specimen quality in biomedical research.
Contemporary pathological and molecular analysis depends on high quality human biospecimens. Poor biospecimen quality may compromise such analyses and the resultant inaccurate data published in scientific papers may be contribute to low reproducibility in the biomedical literature and adversely impact clinical translation. Editors of research journals play a key role in improving sample quality in biomedical by implementing established guidelines. The Editors of Histopathology and The Journal of Pathology will now require that researchers follow the BRISQ guidelines (Biospecimen Reporting for Improved Study Quality) in their papers and hope that this will be a model adopted by other journals in this domain.
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The Journal of pathology · Mar 2011
EditorialThe Journal of Pathology's approach to publication ethics and misconduct.
This Editorial highlights recent changes at The Journal of Pathology intended to improve our ability to detect, and we hope deter, instances of ethical misconduct among submissions made to the Journal, such as cases of guest authorship and plagiarism. We also discuss our experience to date and describe our policies for dealing with such cases. These changes are all encapsulated in our full online Author Guidelines.