# WikiJournal of Medicine/Applications/PubMed Central

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## PubMed Central application

WikiJMed recently hit the baseline requirements for PMC application so application drafting can begin below.

### Specific requirements

Application questions per https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/assets/publisherportal/files/PMC_Publisher_Portal_Questions.pdf

#### Journal Information

* Title
** WikiJournal of Medicine
* Sponsoring organization name (optional)
** None
* Country/Territory
** USA
* Publication start year
** 2014
* Publication frequency
** Continuous
* Estimated number of peer-reviewed articles per year
** 6
* In what format is the journal published?
** Electronic-only
* ISSN (print) and/or ISSN (electronic)
** 2002-4436
* Is the entire journal Open Access?
** Yes

#### Publisher information

* Parent or related companies, and/or subsidiary organizations associated with the organization (include the names, URLs and relationship to applicant)
    The journal publisher, WikiJournal User Group, is a Wikimedia Foundation affiliate, but we enjoy complete editorial independence.
** What is the URL for the WikiJournal User Group? → https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group
** What is the Wikimedia Foundation? → https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/
** What is the Wikimedia 'movement'? → https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement
** What are the Wikimedia movement's three affiliate models? → https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates/Models
** What is a User group? → https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates/Frequently_asked_questions#What_are_Wikimedia_user_groups?
* How do you select editors for your journal(s)?
    Editors submit a public application as either Editorial board member or Associate editor. Associate editors assist in peer review coordination. Editorial board members do this in addition to journal strategy and making final consensus decisions on article publication.
    Editors are voted in by the editorial board based on three areas of previous experience:
    Professional experience (clinical, research etc)
    Publishing experience (editorial etc)
    Open experience (open access/knowledge/data participation)
    All previous applications are available at https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Editors
* Provide a summary for each member of the publisher's senior management team (e.g., executive editor, publishing director, managing editor, ethics manager, etc.).
** We are a not-for-profit organisation. We are all volunteers. Our key leaders are as follows.
** Mikael Haggstrom
*** Responsibilities: Editor in Chief; Treasurer, domain and email administrations, strategy
*** Prior experience in scientific publishing: The creator and editor-in-chief of WikiJournal of Medicine in 2014, the first WikiJournal.
*** Membership in professional associations: Physician, pathology department, NU Hospital Group, Uppsala Sweden
** Gwinyai Masukume
*** Responsibilities: Assistant Editor in Chief; Responsibilities include strategy, indexing, peer review, social media engagement, compiling and analysing metrics
*** Prior experience in scientific publishing: On the founding board of the WikiJournal of Medicine, the first WikiJournal. Co-authored/authored more than 30 PubMed indexed articles including some in the world's leading journals like the Lancet, BMJ and Nature.
*** Membership in professional associations:
** Eric Youngstrom
*** Responsibilities: Editorial Board member
*** Prior experience in scientific publishing: Editorial board membership of Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Psychological Assessment, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Professional Psychology: Science and Practice. Ad hoc reviewer for more than 90 psychology, psychiatry, and medical journals. Author of more than 300 peer reviewed articles, and reviewer of more than 400. Google Scholar h-index = 76.
*** Membership in professional associations: Currently member of the American Psychological Association (fellow), Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (fellow), Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (past president, twice; fellow), Society for Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (President, fellow), International Society for Bipolar Disorders (Vice President for Education), Society for Clinical Psychology (fellow), Association for Psychological Science (fellow).
** Roger Watson
*** Responsibilities: Editorial Board member
*** Prior experience in scientific publishing: Editorial board member: Journal of Advanced Nursing; Nursing Older People; International Journal of Older People Nursing; Nurse Author & Editor; Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene. Editor-in-Chief of Journal Clinical Nursing, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Advanced Nursing, Editor, Nursing Open. Google Scholar h-index = 59.
*** Membership in professional associations: Memberships: Academia Europae; International Association of Nursing Editors. Fellowships: Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom; American Academy of Nursing; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery); European Academy of Nursing; National Conference of University Professors.
** Thomas Shafee
*** Responsibilities: Editorial Board member
*** Prior experience in scientific publishing: Editorial board member of PLOS Genetics (instigated and oversee the 'topic pages' format that enables some PLOS-Wikipedia integration). Published 28 articles on evolution & biochemistry topics, as well as on wikipedia, wikidata, and academic publishing. Published letters in both Nature and Science. Invited speaker at Australian Scholarly Publishing Association annual conference and Australian Open Access Strategy Group.
*** Membership in professional associations: Senior Officer of Research Data Outputs at La Trobe University, Melbourne and honorary research fellow at La Trobe University. Member of Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE), Cambridge philosophical society, and Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research & Open Science.

#### Language information

* Are all articles published fully in English?
** Yes

#### Journal details and Policies

* Journal website URL
** www.WikiJMed.org
* Aims and scope (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/About
* Names and Affiliations of the Editorial Board (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Editors
* Editorial policies (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Ethics_statement
* Peer Review Process (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Peer_reviewers
* Advertising policy
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Ethics_statement#Fees
* Research ethics policy (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Ethics_statement
* Informed consent policy (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Ethics_statement#Informed_consent
* The process for handling cases requiring corrections, retractions, and editorial expressions of concern (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_of_Medicine/Ethics_statement#Scientific_misconduct

##### General Publisher Information

* Organization Address
** WikiJournal User Group, USA
* Publisher website (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group
* Business Structure
** Not-for-profit
* Names and titles of organization owner (if applicable) and executives
** N/A
* Parent or related companies, and/or subsidiary organizations associated with the organization
** Registered User Group of the Wikimedia foundation
* (include the names, URLs and relationship t** applicant)
** https://wikimediafoundation.org
** https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_WikiJournal_User_Group

#### Publisher Policies

* Editorial policies (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Ethics_statement
* Peer review policy (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Peer_reviewers
* Advertising policy (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Ethics_statement#Fees
* Research ethics policy (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Ethics_statement
* Informed consent policy (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Ethics_statement#Human_research_and_cases
* The process for handling cases requiring corrections, retractions, and editorial expressions of concern (URL)
** https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Ethics_statement#Scientific_misconduct

### Process and example guidance questions

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/pub/addjournal/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/pub/journalselect/

### Submission

I have now submitted the above items using the application form (tracking number = NJA-29863). T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) 23:48, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

### Rejection (too early)

Pubmed central has responded stating that:
    "At this point, the WikiJournal of Medicine does not have enough primary content to be evaluated for PMC participation. For publishers with at least a two-year history of quality scholarly publishing in the life sciences, a minimum of 25 peer reviewed articles (e.g., original research or review articles, clinical case reports) must be published in final form before you apply. You can find more details in our application instructions."
    I have responded to clarify:
       "Could I confirm, is there a set proportion of the published content that must be primary research articles? We have a large proportion of review articles, however all content is peer reviewed, and we note that several other reviews-focused publishers are indexed in PMC (most notably Annual reviews). The applications requirements page indicates that the requirement is “A minimum of 25 peer reviewed articles (e.g., original research or review articles, clinical case reports)”."
    T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) 10:09, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
       PMC confirmed that they do not count the figure reviews and gallery reviews, so we are currently only at 20 eligible items. Can resubmit once threshold is reached. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) 22:42, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

### Resubmission

Resubmission to PMC via application form. (tracking number = NJA-34990). T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) 01:52, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

### Rejection (several issues flagged)

Summary: The journal has not passed their indexing review. Reapplication must wait until Nov 2023. I'm checking with the PMC Applications Team as to whether I can post their full comments here. If not, I'll paraphrase all their feedback. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo) 04:38, 10 November 2021 (UTC) (Update: Permission granted to share feedback. 05:43, 16 November 2021 (UTC))

#### NLM Review Summary

WikiJournal of Medicine is an open access journal in medicine and biomedicine that enables “academic and medical professionals to contribute expert knowledge to the Wikimedia movement in the academic publishing format that directly rewards them with citable publications.” The journal is published continuously, and article types include research and reviews.
NLM noted that the scientific and editorial quality of articles was inconsistent. NLM would like to see an overall improvement in the quality of science, with reviews that are more critical and comprehensive with a focus on current research in the field, as well as case reports that better adhere to the CARE case report guidelines. Finally, NLM is concerned that the journal has not demonstrated the ability to sustain a consistent level of published articles over time.

#### Reviewers’ Comments

Article quality is variable.
The concerns with the scientific and editorial quality include:
* Reviews that did not contain substantive summaries and analysis of recent research in a field, and one (#1) that contained a large amount of self-citation.
* A case report (#5) that did not adequately adhere to the CARE case report guidelines.
* Multiple recent articles have been “updated” due to copyright/plagiarism concerns. However, a separate notice of correction was not published, consistent with relevant best practices.
* Articles with discrepancies between the numbers reported in the text versus in figures (e.g. article #3, Figure 1; article 4, Figure 1).
* Statements that were made without appropriate citations.
* The journal publishes few articles annually.
* When articles are adapted from Wikipedia, non-author contributors are listed as authors under “et. al” rather than listing them under the acknowledgements section in line with relevant best practices.
Some articles were found to be of good quality.

#### Examples of Articles Reviewed

* Epidemiology of the Hepatitis D virus
* Comparison between the Lund-Browder chart and the BurnCase 3D® for consistency in estimating total body surface area burned
* Emotional and Psychological Impact of Interpreting for Clients with Traumatic Histories on interpreters: a review of qualitative articles
* Mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia
* Incidental Finding of Complete Bilateral Persistent Sciatic Arteries: A Case Report
* An overview of Lassa fever
* Hepatitis E
* Working with Bipolar Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Both Crisis and Opportunity
* Viewer interaction with YouTube videos about hysterectomy recovery
* Orientia tsutsugamushi, the agent of scrub typhus