The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2006;88:2323-2325.
doi:10.2106/JBJS.F.01154
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Editorial

Professionalism in Publishing

Richard A. Brand, MD, Editor-in-Chief1, Joshua J. Jacobs, MD, Consulting Editor for Research2 and James D. Heckman, MD, Editor-in-Chief3

1 Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
2 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, American Volume
3 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, American Volume

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In 2004, two of us (R.A.B. and J.D.H.) along with Mr. James Scott, the Editor-in-Chief of the British volume of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, jointly published an editorial, "Changing Ethical Standards in Scientific Publication,"1-3 in which we outlined various elements of publishing ethics, including plagiarism and redundant publication. Our journals have adopted publishing and reporting standards based on those of several international editors' groups4-6. We wish to again bring these issues to the attention of our readers because we continue to identify violations of well-accepted publishing standards.

We highlight three ethical standards included in the new American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Standards of Professionalism7-9: ownership of intellectual property, authorship, and redundant submission/publication. The first relates to ownership of intellectual property. We quote from the mandatory standards outlined in Section VIII. B: "Orthopaedic surgeons should not claim as their own intellectual property that which . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Appealing an AAOS Professional Compliance Action
Peter J. Mandell, MD
JBJS Online, 7 Dec 2006 [Full text]
Dr. Brand, Dr. Jacobs, and Dr. Heckman reply to Dr. Mandell
Richard A. Brand, M.D., et al.
JBJS Online, 7 Dec 2006 [Full text]