About the Authors

Darren B. Taichman

DTaichman@mail.acponline.org

Affiliation Secretary, ICMJE, Executive Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine

Joyce Backus

Affiliation Representative and Associate Director for Library Operations, National Library of Medicine

Christopher Baethge

Affiliation Chief Scientific Editor, Deutsches Ärzteblatt (German Medical Journal)

Howard Bauchner

Affiliation Editor-in-Chief, JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) and the JAMA Network

Peter W. de Leeuw

Affiliation Editor-in-Chief, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (The Dutch Medical Journal)

Jeffrey M. Drazen

Affiliation Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine

John Fletcher

Affiliation Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Medical Association Journal

Frank A. Frizelle

Affiliation Editor-in-Chief, New Zealand Medical Journal

Trish Groves

Affiliation Head of Research, British Medical Journal

Abraham Haileamlak

Affiliation Editor-in-Chief, Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences

Astrid James

Affiliation Deputy Editor, The Lancet

Christine Laine

Affiliation Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine

Larry Peiperl

Affiliation Chief Editor, PLOS Medicine

Anja Pinborg

Affiliation Scientific Editor-in-Chief, Ugeskrift for Laeger (Danish Medical Journal)

Peush Sahni

Affiliation Representative and Past President, World Association of Medical Editors

Sinan Wu

Affiliation Representative, Chinese Medical Journal

Competing Interests

DBT is an employee of the Annals of Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians. JB is Representative and Associate Director for Library Operations, National Library of Medicine. CB is an employee of Deutsches Ärzteblatt, a medical journal that publishes clinical trials. JMD is employed by the New England Journal of Medicine as Editor-in-Chief. JF is employed by the Canadian Medical Association as the Editor-in-Chief of the Association's journal, the Canadian Medical Association Journal. FAF is Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and an author of research. AH is a member of the ICMJE, editor of Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences and an employee of Jimma University. CL is employed as the Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine and Senior Vice President, American College of Physicians. As Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine LP receives a salary and benefits from Public Library of Science, a nonprofit publisher and advocate of Open Access research. In 2015 he received travel reimbursement from WHO to attend the World Health Organization Consultation on Data and Results Sharing during Public Health Emergencies. AP is an employee of Danish Medical Journal (Ugeskrift for Læger), a medical journal that publishes clinical trials. HB, PWdL, TG, AJ, PS, and SW have declared no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: DBT. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: DBT JB CB HB PWdL JMD JF FAF TG AH AJ CL LP AP PS SW. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: DBT JB CB HB PWdL JMD JF FAF TG AH AJ CL LP AP PS SW.