About the Authors

David Moher

dmoher@ohri.ca

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Douglas G. Altman

Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

DM is leading a program on the development of core competencies for scientific medical editors mentioned in the essay. He has received funding from the Cochrane Collaboration, the Garfield Foundation, and BioMed Central for this activity. DGA and DM are members of the EQUATOR steering committee. DM is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: DM DGA. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: DM DGA. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: DM DGA. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.